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
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.