I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.