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 would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.