Swaraj Quotes

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.