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Quotes by Leader

"It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of."

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
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"Jan Dhan Yojana is not only about opening bank accounts. It got so many people into the economic mainstream. Our Jan Dhan experience also showed us the richness of the poor."

"He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free."


"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

"I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that."

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished."

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."


"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."

"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."


"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes."

"We consider rivers as our mother, plants and trees as our God...after all, these are the things related to security of climate."

"Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed."

"There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at " if you will pardon the expression " a man's behind."

"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."

"In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."
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