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I Care So Deeply About This Matter That I'm Willing To Take On The Legal Penalties, To Sit In This Prison Cell, To Sacrifice My Freedom, In Order To Show You How Deeply I Care. Because When You See The Depth Of My Concern, And How Civil I Am In Going About This, You're Bound To Change Your Mind About Me, To Abandon Your Rigid, Unjust Position, And To Let Me Help You See The Truth Of My Cause.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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I Care So Deeply

Mahatma Gandhi

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I Care So Deeply About This Matter That I'm Willing To Take On The Legal Penalties, To Sit In This Prison Cell, To Sacrifice My Freedom, In Order To Show You How Deeply I Care. Because When You See The Depth Of My Concern, And How Civil I Am In Going About This, You're Bound To Change Your Mind About Me, To Abandon Your Rigid, Unjust Position, And To Let Me Help You See The Truth Of My Cause.

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