India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.