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
Earth and heaven are in us
For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.
My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.
Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
Life is one indivisible whole.
For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.
If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.