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
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.
The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Your action expresses your priorities.
Make injustice visible.
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.