The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.