Anti-colonial activist

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Civil disobedience Fighting injustice

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

Congo, My Country

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Topic

Moral theory

Author

Patrice Lumumba

Source

Congo, My Country

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lumumba, Patrice. Congo, My Country. Praeger, 1962, ch. 3.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Pacificism and nonviolence

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism

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Topic

Revolution

Author

Kwame Nkrumah

Source

Consciencism

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nkrumah, Kwame. Consciencism. Monthly Review Press, 1964, ch. 2.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah

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Topic

Self-determination Anti-colonialism

Author

Kwame Nkrumah

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Nkrumah, Kwame. Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah

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Topic

Nature of freedom Fighting for freedom Freedom

Speaker

Kwame Nkrumah

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Nkrumah, Kwame. "Motion of Destiny." Revolutionary Path. Panaf, 1973. Originally an address called "Motion of Destiny." Gold Coast National Assembly. 10 July 1953, Accra, Ghana.

There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Topic

Fighting for freedom

Author

Jawaharlal Nehru

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nehru, Jawaharlal. "From Lucknow to Tripuri." The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940. Lindsay Drummond, 1941.

The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.

Jomo Kenyatta

Facing Mount Kenya

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Topic

Africa

Author

Jomo Kenyatta

Source

Facing Mount Kenya

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mount Kenya. Secker and Warburg, 1938, conclusion.

Civil disobedience... Becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless, or... Corrupt.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Civil disobedience Rebellion

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

Young India

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Immediate Issue." Young India, 5 Jan. 1922.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Civil disobedience Fighting for justice

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Topic

Political theory Politics Means and ends

Author

Jawaharlal Nehru

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Nehru, Jawaharlal. "The Basic Approach." AICC Economic Review, 15 Aug. 1958.

We are engaged in a spiritual war. We are not living in normal times.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Conditions for revolution Revolution

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

The Secret of Swaraj

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Secret of Swaraj." Young India, 19 Jan. 1921.

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Diversity of religion Religion

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

Hind Swaraj

Genre

Anti-colonial literature

Language

Gujarati

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule." Indian Opinion, 1909

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "Hind Swaraj." Gandhi: "Hind Swaraj" and Other Writings, edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Mind over matter Power of thought Thoughts

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

Ethical Religion

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hindi

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Ethical Religion: Nithi Dharma. S. Ganesan, 1922.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.

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Topic

India Post-colonialism Political independence

Author

Jawaharlal Nehru

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.