It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.