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
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
Social service that savours of patronage is not service.