It Is Claimed For Satyagraha That It

Truth Is The Right Designation Of God.

Ours Is One Continual Struggle Against A Degradation Sought To Be Inflicted Upon Us By The Europeans, Who Desire To Degrade Us To The Level Of The Raw Kaffir Whose Occupation Is Hunting, And Whose Sole Ambition Is To Collect A Certain Number Of Cattle To Buy A Wife With And, Then, Pass His Life In Indolence And Nakedness.

Even A Single Lamp Dispels The Deepest Darkness.

The Fear Of The Judge Within Is More Terrible Than That Of The One Without.

An Unjust Law Is Itself A Species Of Violence. Arrest For Its Breach Is More So. Now The Law Of Nonviolence Says That Violence Should Be Resisted Not By Counter-violence But By Nonviolence. This I Do By Breaking The Law And By Peacefully Submitting To Arrest And Imprisonment.