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
If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.