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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Attitude Enough Goodness
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Change Face History Yourself
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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Danger Poor Prosperity
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Force Thinking
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Accident Born Education Identity Myself View
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Democracy End
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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Inspirational Past Present
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Danger Person Quiet
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Death Defeat Preparation
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Friendship Future Science
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Failure Ourselves Weakness
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

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