The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.