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
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.
We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.