A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.