One day, I found that my clothes were full of bugs. I was horrified. I thought: 'I have to get rid of these bugs.' But then I thought: 'No, I cannot kill them. They are living beings.' So I took them off very carefully, one by one, and put them in a bottle.
— Mahatma Gandhi Modern

Indian independence leader, nonviolence

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Recounted in his autobiography, illustrating his commitment to ahimsa.

Date / Period

c. 1890s

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/autobiography.php

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