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
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
Life is greater than all art.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.