Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Quotes

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.