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
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.