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 and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.