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Comment: “The true source of right is duty. If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.” (M. K. Gandhi)

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  • Indian Political Thought

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The lines are from M. K. Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) in Young India (8 January 1925). He went on: if we leave duties unperformed and run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp. The claim concerns the origin of rights. Duty is primary and a right is its derivative, so the liberal order…

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