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
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
Hinduism is not a codified religion.