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by smallblacksun 4990 days ago
I agree that Gandhi didn't mean that it as proof, but many, many people on the internet use it to mean precisely that.
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Yup, something alone the lines of, "YOU SEE THAT!? SEE HOW THEY ARE IGNORING US!?! THAT PROVES WE WILL CRUSH THEM!"
Upvoted. I hear this sentiment quite a lot.
I've heard that this quote doesn't come from Gandhi. See for example http://www.dailywritingtips.com/16-misquoted-quotations/