"If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident."
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"If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident."
"If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without."
"My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force."
"To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme."
"My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane."
"If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero."
"Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence."
"Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj."
"When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand."
"With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster."
"I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God."
"I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it."
"If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life."
"A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism."
"You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death."
"In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force."
"A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding."
"To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi."
"No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side."
"A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him."