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
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.
God has His own way of choosing His instruments.
God's time never stops.
The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.
Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.
The sum total of karma is God.
Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
Violence is the fear to other's ideals.
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.