Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Let your life be your message.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.