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- 55% sureLots of sources credit Mahatma Gandhi with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Reported response to a journalist asking his message to the world; cited to Mahatma: Life of Gandhi 1869-1948 (1968) documentary, Reel 13 — a posthumous compilation.
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