“most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart.
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Mahatma Gandhi
“La non-violence est la loi de notre espèce, comme la violence est la loi de la brute. L'esprit somnole chez la brute qui ne connaît pour toute loi que cette de la force physique. La dignité de l'homme exige d'obéir à une loi supérieure.
à la force de l'esprit.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Cuando hay una tormenta los pajaritos se esconden, pero las águilas vuelan más alto”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts; Verily He is the thread which supports Muktanand's life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
