Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow’s broken-up home.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love’s labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.