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
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them.
In Gujarat Hitler's life and works have been glorified in school textbooks which is a very serious matter,
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.