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
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.