Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.