Democracy Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.”

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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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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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