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
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.