The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

We must be the world we want to create.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.