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
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
You can't hurt me without my permission.
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
Think for tomorrow but act for today.
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
Priorities lie in your actions
We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.