Famous quotes containing the words gandhi, struggle, indian and/or independence:
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)