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Justice Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

32 Justice quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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When the quest for fairness meets a steadfast commitment to non‑violence, Gandhi’s words provide a clear, human‑centered lens. This set gathers his most pointed observations on how justice intertwines with truth, service, and the power of peaceful resistance.

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God is always the upholder of justice.

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To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

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Make injustice visible.

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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

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Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a…

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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth…

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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one…

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For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth…

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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the…

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Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer.…

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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship…

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the…

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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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