How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Experience has taught me that civility is the most difficult part of Satyagraha. Civility does not here mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. These should show themselves in every act of a Satyagrahi. (5.24.5)
Activists might convince themselves to speak civilly to their opponents when the action is taking place, but that's still not enough, Gandhi says. They have to really mean it deep down; they have to seek to do their opponents well.
Quote #8
But my South African experiences had convinced me that it would be on the question of Hindu-Muslim unity that my Ahimsa would be put to its severest test, and that the question presented the widest field for my experiments in Ahimsa. The conviction is still there. Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial. (5.26.3)
This passage hoping for Hindu-Muslim unity is especially sad when you recall that Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist who opposed Gandhi's accommodating approach to Muslims.
Quote #9
And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is Ahimsa, I shall deem all my labor in writing these chapters to have been in vain. (Farewell.4)
So, are you convinced that you must be non-violent in order to find truth? If not, might as well flush his book down the toilet, Gandhi says.