A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.