You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.