"The canker has so eaten into the..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.”

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

“A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.”

“To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.”

“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

“It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.”

“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.”