Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.