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 mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.