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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian independence
Harijan, 10 August 1947, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 89, p. 137.
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