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
The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.