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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We…

Quote byMahatma Gandhi · 1869–1948

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Great Sentinel in Young India 13 October 1921.

English (original)

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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