In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

The weak can never forgive.