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
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.