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
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.
My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.