Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.