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Englishmen must learn to be Br...

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Civilization is not an incurab...

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Non-co-operation is a movement...

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Swaraj means, a state such tha...

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

However virile the English lan...

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

The English language is so ela...

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

If the English educated neglec...

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

We, the English educated India...

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

I am not anti-English, I am no...

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

I refuse to put the unnecessar...

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

My love of the British is equa...

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

My mission is to convert every...

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

My personal religion enables m...

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

My plea is for banishing the E...

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

If any Englishman dedicated hi...

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Personally I crave not for 'in...

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Through the deliverance of Ind...

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

To get rid of the infatuation ...

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

A smattering of English is wor...

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

Ram Mohan Roy would have been ...

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Mahatma Gandhi 3458 quotes

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