"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

January 1, 1970

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Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. There is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein: