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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Quotes

1890–1988 India

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (in Pashto خان عبد) الغفار خان)) (date of Birth 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Badshah Khan ("King Khan") was a pashtun non-violent activist. He is also noted for his association with Mahatma Gandhi, which earned him the name "Frontier Gandhi".

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Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.

"In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’."

There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.