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
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
Idleness is the great plague of India.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.