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
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.