Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
Priorities lie in your actions
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.