It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.