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
Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.