India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.