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
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.