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
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
If you want a change in the world, be the change
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.