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Social Justice & Humanity! Commonly misattributed
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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
— Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence leader

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Attributed to
Mahatma Gandhi
Culture / tradition
Indian
Attribution status
! Commonly misattributed

No record of Gandhi saying this; similar words by Nicholas Klein, 1918.

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