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
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
The true source of rights is duty.
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.