Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals