“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.”

—  Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954), by Louis Fischer, p. 177 <br class="br"> Mahatma Gandhi to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, August 29, 1947 https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/ghp_booksection_detail/Ny0yMzUtMg==#page/258/mode/2up. In Letters to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. 1st edition (April, 1961), p. 246 <br class="br">Posthumous publications (1950s and later)

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