If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.