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
Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.