Social Justice & Humanity! Commonly misattributed
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence leader
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- ! Commonly misattributed
No record of Gandhi saying this; similar words by Nicholas Klein, 1918.
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