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Arun Gandhi

16 quotes in 51 categories

[Wikipedia] Arun Manilal Gandhi was a South African–American author, socio-political activist, and son of Manilal Gandhi, thus a grandson of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. In 2017, he published The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons From My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi.

Quotes by Arun Gandhi

“When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws…

Civil rights

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“Since our understanding of Truth itself does not remain constant, one who is determined to pursue it diligently must constantly test and…

Learning

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“Use your anger for good. Anger to people is like gas to the automobile - it fuels you to move forward and…

Anger

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“Religions are different roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we…

Different roads

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“Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to…

Nonviolence

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“The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along,…

Hinduism

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“This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless…

Change the world

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“When we over consume the Earth's resources, we create an economic imbalance in societies and in the world. Affluent people and affluent…

Environmentalism

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“In recent decades we have emphasized the value of teaching people 'tolerance.' Tolerance is not only inadequate, it is a negative concept…

Acceptance

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“Anger is good... Anger, you see, is to people what fuel is to an automobile. Without it, we would not be motivated…

Anger

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“Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily.…

Anger

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“Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control.…

Children

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“For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not.…

Family

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“Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty…

Arrogance

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“The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.”

Civil disobedience

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“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech- he will measure every word.”

Language

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