The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

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

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.