In the words of Mahatma Gandhi:
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
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