Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good