My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.