“Disobedience without civility, discipline, discrimination, non-violence, is certain destruction. Disobedience combined with love is the living water of life. Civil disobedience is a beautiful variant to signify growth, it is not discordance which spells death.”

—  Mahatma Gandhi

Young India (1 May 1922)
1920s

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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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