If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.