Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Remember: Resist do not comply.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.