# Mahatma Gandhi quotes he actually said

From his 1922 trial and Young India to Harijan: Gandhi's real words with their source. Not included: 'Be the change you wish to see' and 'First they ignore you…', which he never said.

- 126 votes · 14 items
- Feb 1, 2021 · Thabo Nkosi
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## Top 14

1. **Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Defence speech at his trial, 1922.
2. **The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Young India, 2 April 1931.
3. **Truth never damages a cause that is just.** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Harijan, 9 December 1939.
4. **An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Young India 1924–1926.
5. **Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Young India, 12 March 1931.
6. **Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919.
7. **Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Written statement at his trial for sedition, March 1922.
8. **An unjust law is itself a species of violence.** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Non-Violence in Peace & War, vol. 2.
9. **You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Quoted in Louis Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954).
10. **I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.** (4 · ▲8 ▼4) — Speech at Victoria Hall, Geneva, 10 December 1931.
11. **My life is my message.** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — His answer to a journalist who asked for his message to the world.
12. **Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted by Pyarelal Nayyar in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase.
13. **It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Harijan, 17 February 1940.
14. **A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Harijan, 19 November 1938.

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