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
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.