May Quotes - Page 302

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

Maybe love can kill better than hate.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

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.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.