Mahatma Gandhi quotes he actually said
The top 3 according to 126 votes from people: Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. · The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. · Truth never damages a cause that is just.. (Updated Feb 1, 2021.)
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.
Top 14
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Defence speech at his trial, 1922.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Young India, 2 April 1931.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Harijan, 9 December 1939.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Young India 1924–1926.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Young India, 12 March 1931.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Written statement at his trial for sedition, March 1922.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Non-Violence in Peace & War, vol. 2.
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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.
Quoted in Louis Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954).
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Speech at Victoria Hall, Geneva, 10 December 1931.
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My life is my message.
His answer to a journalist who asked for his message to the world.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.
Quoted by Pyarelal Nayyar in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase.
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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.
Harijan, 17 February 1940.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Harijan, 19 November 1938.
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Comments (1)
Thank you for leaving out 'be the change'. I see that fake quote on every office wall and he never said it.