Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

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.