Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.