8 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Rights

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on rights

4. In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

10. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

24. Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

25. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

39. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

78. Life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

188. Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

256. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.