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
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.
There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.