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.> Quote traced to trade union leader
.> Africa Check turned to the Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, the “encyclopedia of Gandhi’s thoughts”, and could not find the quote.
.> The closest quote we could find is from a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America held on 15 May 1918 in Baltimore in the US.
.> “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you,” Nicholas Klein, a US labour activist, told the trade union convention.
.> Other fact-checkers, such as Snopes, Politifact and news agency the Associated Press, have reviewed the claim and all concluded it is most likely that Klein originally said the quote.
.> The director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in the US told the Associated Press that the quote was not by Gandhi.
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