Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.