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
In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.
Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.
Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.