Mohandas Gandhi
Mr. & Mrs. Gandhi Address the People of India
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My message to you is the message I have given to your brothers everywhere: To gain independence, we must prove worthy of it. There must be Hindu-Muslim unity always.
Second, no Indian must be treated as the English treat us. We must remove untouchability from our hearts and from our lives.
Third, we must defy the British.
Not with violence that will inflame their will, but with a firmness that will open their eyes. English factories make the cloth that makes our poverty. All those who wish to make the English see, bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today, and we will light a fire that will be seen in Delhi and in London.
And if, like me, you are left with only one piece of homespun, wear it with dignity.
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