The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
