When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Barack Obama

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice and the other we fight against our own weaknesses.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice and the other we fight against our own weaknesses.

…As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did – that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it.

…As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did – that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it.

Happiness and misery are paper balls. Don’t be afraid of death. Join the nationalist forces, be united. Give work to those who are hungry, food to invalids, forget your quarrels.

Happiness and misery are paper balls. Don’t be afraid of death. Join the nationalist forces, be united. Give work to those who are hungry, food to invalids, forget your quarrels.

No distinctions of caste and creed should hamper us. All are the sons and daughters of India. We should all love our country and build our destiny on mutual love and help.

No distinctions of caste and creed should hamper us. All are the sons and daughters of India. We should all love our country and build our destiny on mutual love and help.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but it required the whole-hearted co-operation of all on board; she could be safely brought to port.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but it required the whole-hearted co-operation of all on board; she could be safely brought to port.

We have to shed mutual bickering, shed the difference of being high or low and develop the sense of equality and banish untouchability. We have to restore the conditions of Swaraj prevalent prior to British rule. We have to live like the children of the same father.

We have to shed mutual bickering, shed the difference of being high or low and develop the sense of equality and banish untouchability. We have to restore the conditions of Swaraj prevalent prior to British rule. We have to live like the children of the same father.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.