Mohandas Gandhi on Communal Harmony

January 1, 1924

[…] The message is to spiritualize political life and the political institutions of this country. Politics is essential to them as religion… Politics cannot be divorced from religion. Politics divorced from religion becomes debasing. Modern culture and civilization are such politics. My views may not be acceptable to you, I know. All the same I can only give you what is stirring me to my very depths…

[…] If I were a dictator, religion and State should be separate. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The State has nothing to do with it. The State would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody’s personal concern.
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