Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.