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Ours Is One Continual Struggle Against A Degradation Sought To Be Inflicted Upon Us By The Europeans, Who Desire To Degrade Us To The Level Of The Raw Kaffir Whose Occupation Is Hunting, And Whose Sole Ambition Is To Collect A Certain Number Of Cattle To Buy A Wife With And, Then, Pass His Life In Indolence And Nakedness.

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Ours Is One Continual

Mahatma Gandhi

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Ours Is One Continual Struggle Against A Degradation Sought To Be Inflicted Upon Us By The Europeans, Who Desire To Degrade Us To The Level Of The Raw Kaffir Whose Occupation Is Hunting, And Whose Sole Ambition Is To Collect A Certain Number Of Cattle To Buy A Wife With And, Then, Pass His Life In Indolence And Nakedness.

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