Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
Mahatma GandhiBut I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
Mahatma GandhiUnder ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
Mahatma GandhiIt is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi