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
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.
Nonviolence requires great patience.
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.