The grinding poverty and starvation with which our country is afflicted is such that it drives more and more men every year into the ranks of the beggars, whose desperate struggle for bread renders them insensible to all feelings of decency and self-respect.
 Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1929). copy citation

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Author Mahatma Gandhi
Source The Story of my Experiments with Truth
Topic poverty decency
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai in 1940
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