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
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.