My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.