Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.