We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.