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 experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.