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
If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).