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What does it mean?
Common danger unites people who might otherwise be divided.
In plain terms
Danger makes people unite.
What can you take from it?
Shared threats can foster unity.

Where it applies

  • crises
  • natural disasters
  • external threats

Putting it to work

  • identify shared risks
  • build coalitions
  • highlight common goals

Questions to consider

  • What unites people in your community?
  • How do you respond to shared threats?

Another view

Unity may vanish once the danger passes.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. Justice can be won quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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  2. With disappearance of danger also disappears the name of God.

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  3. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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