Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.