Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
God is always the upholder of justice.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Be the change you want to see.
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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