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
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
God is Truth, Truth is God.
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together
Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.