My Religion And My Patriotism

Among The Many Misdeeds Of The British Rule In India, History Will Look Upon The Act Depriving A Whole Nation Of Arms As The Blackest. If We Want The Arms Act To Be Repealed, If We Want To Learn The Use Of Arms, Here Is A Golden Opportunity. If The Middle Classes Render Voluntary Help To Government In The Hour Of Its Trial, Distrust Will Disappear, And The Ban On Possessing Arms Will Be Withdrawn.

Our Aim Is Not To Do Things By Violence To Opponents.

The Only Safe And Honorable Course For A Self-respecting Man Is To Do What I Have Decided To Do, That Is, To Submit Without Protest To The Penalty Of Disobedience ... Not For Want Of Respect For Lawful Authority, But In Obedience To The Higher Law Of Our Being, The Voice Of Conscience.

The Seeker Is At Liberty To Extract From This Treasure Any Meaning He Likes, So As To Enable Him To Enforce In His Life The Central Teaching.

It Would Conduce To National Progress And Save A Great Deal Of Time And Trouble If We Cultivated The Habit Of Never Supporting The Resolutions Either By Speaking Or Voting For Them If We Had Not Either The Intention Or The Ability To Carry Them Out.