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
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.