Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.