If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.