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Quotes from Gandhi and the freedom movement

Words from India's struggle for freedom: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 to 1948), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 to 1920), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897 to 1945) and Bhagat Singh (1907 to 1931). Gandhi is among the most misquoted people in history, so every line of his below names the journal, book or speech and its date.

Mahatma Gandhi

  • Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

    Mahatma Gandhi, statement at his trial, Ahmedabad, 18 March 1922

  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 11 August 1920

  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 2 April 1931

  • I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1 June 1921

  • To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 13 October 1921

  • "Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised.

    Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927 to 1929)

  • The mantra is: "Do or Die". We shall either free India or die in the attempt.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Quit India speech, Bombay, 8 August 1942

  • My life is my message.

    Mahatma Gandhi, message written in 1947

Tilak, Bose and Bhagat Singh

  • Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it.

    Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1916

  • Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!

    Subhas Chandra Bose, speech to the Indian National Army, Burma, 4 July 1944

  • Bombs and pistols do not make revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.

    Bhagat Singh, statement in court, 1930

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