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
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
An act of Kindness is better than a thousand heads bowed in prayer.
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Truth is the right designation of God.
To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.