Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

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.

Live simply that others might simply live.