We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non violence in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. 

Freedom is not given - it is taken

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Today we must remove distinction of high and low, rich and poor, caste and creed.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.