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“The British," he (Gandhi) said, "want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not." _______Cited by William L Shirer in 'Gandhi: A Memoir”

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Book:An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

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