Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.
I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.
I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!