Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.