The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.