Quotes About Satyagrahi

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 lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

But ahimsa is more than just the absence of violence: It is the presence of justice and of love. Gandhi always made it perfectly clear that "the satyagrahi's object is to convert, not to coerce, the wrongdoer.