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Young India · 1920
Traced to Young India (1920).
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.”
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Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
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Harijan · 1947
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Young India · 1931
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“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
Viktor Frankl
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Frederick Douglass
Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting · 1883
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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