A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Your action expresses your priorities.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.