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
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.