Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

Flagrant injustice, cruelty and oppression…if left unchecked will so multiply that the whole of the native border tribes will be provoked into a battle of dangerous exasperation.

If a free society is ever destroyed in America, it will be done in the name of one particular vision of liberty and freedom.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

When the white man turns tyrant [colonialism], it is his own freedom he destroys.

By us, and not for us

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors…. The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood/

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.