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
India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.