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
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.