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GREAT THOUGHTS OF MAHATMA GANDHI

The best and quickest way to deliverance from the distrust and secret Police Department is to rid the country of false fear and all violence. But till that far-off day arrives the handful of Satyagrahis must be prepared to treat the Prison as their second home.

We can see how the world is moving steadily to realise that between nation and nation, as between man and man, force has failed to solve problems, but that the economic sanction of non-co-operation is far more mighty and conclusive than armies and navies.

Till a new energy is harnessed and put on wheels, the captains of the older energies will treat the innovation as theoretical, impractical, idealistic and so on.

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