"It is one thing to be non-violent in peace, and another to be non-violent in the face of violence."

"Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute."

"I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams."

"You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."