I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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