The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.