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
Man believes and lives.
The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.
Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
My religion teaches me to love all equally.
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.