No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.