Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Human Rights
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader