QuoteQuest“[I]t is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
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- reference · Secondary source
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As quoted in Gandhi’s Experiments With Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, Richard L. Johnson (edit), Lexington Books (2006) p. 118. Original source: Forward to volume of Gokhale's speeches, Gopal Krishna Gokahalenan Vyakhyanao, 1, 1916
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Gandhi, Mahatma. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
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