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
Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
In the midst of darkness, light persists.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.