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
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
God is not in strength but in truth.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man
If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.