Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.