I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?