I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

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

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.