No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.