Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.