SATYAGRAHA/SATYAGRAHI

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and makes itself irresistible.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

The fight of Satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

Satyagraha, of which civil-resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Satyagraha is a law of universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired and the object of satyagraha is gained.

Satyagraha does not depend on the outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

For a satyagraha brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa-nonvionlence and satya-truth.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill-will.

Whatever may be true of other modes of warfare, in satyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing there from.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others and ample hope.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

A satyagrahi loves his so called enemy even as he loves his friend. He owns no enemy.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

Some of these quotes were painstakingly researched and categorized by Sunanda Gandhi from various sources, including some private Gandhi family documents. Others were selected by the FREE CUBA Foundation from Gandhi on Non-violence: A Selection from the Writings of Mahatma Gandhi - Edited by Thomas Merton and Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political Writings - Edited by Dennis Dalton.

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