If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.