I Claim To Have Been

Was It That You Wanted To Pull My Leg By Transporting Me To The Frozen Himalayan Heights Of 'mahatmaship' And Claiming For Yourself Absolution From Having To Follow My Precepts?

In This Day Of Wonders No One Will Say That A Thing Or An Idea Is Worthless Because It Is New. To Say It Is Impossible Because It Is Difficult Is Again Not In Consonance With The Spirit Of The Age. Things Undreamt Of Are Daily Being Seen, The Impossible Is Ever Becoming Possible.

I Believe In The Capacity Of India To Offer Nonviolent Battle To The English Rulers.

An Unjust Law Is Itself A Species Of Violence. Arrest For Its Breach Is More So. Now The Law Of Nonviolence Says That Violence Should Be Resisted Not By Counter-violence But By Nonviolence. This I Do By Breaking The Law And By Peacefully Submitting To Arrest And Imprisonment.

My Optimism Rests On My Belief In The Infinite Possibilities Of The Individual To Develop Nonviolence. . . . In A Gentle Way You Can Shake The World.