"Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.”

“A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.”

“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”

“The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.”

“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”

“Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.”

“An old man, broken with the storms of state,Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;Give him a little earth for charity!”

“Pity makes suffering contagious.”

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”