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
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.