Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malaterms, it is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become amere cog in the machine. I want every individual to become a full-blooded, fulldeveloped member of the society.H, 28 Jan. 1939August 24What does communism mean in the last analysis? It means a classless society anideal that is worth striving for. Only I part company with it when force is calledto aid for achieving it. We are all born equal, but we have all these centuriesresisted the will of God. The idea of inequality, of 'high and low', is an evil, butI do not believe in the eradicating evil from the human breast at the point ofthe bayonet. The human breast does not lend itself to that means.H, 13 March 1937August 25Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beastshave. And since every right carries with it a corresponding duty and thecorresponding remedy for resisting any attack upon it, it is merely a matter offinding out the corresponding duties and remedies to vindicate the elementaryfundamental equality. The corresponding duty is to labour with my limbs andthe corresponding remedy is to non-co-operate with him who deprives me ofthe fruit of my labour.YI, 26 March 1931August 26The true source of rights is duty. If we all discharge our duties, rights will notbe far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they escapeus like a will-o'-the-wisp. The more we pursue them, the farther they fly. Thesame teaching has been embodied by Krihna in the immortal words: ' actionwww.mkgandhi.org Page 64