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
The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.