I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.