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
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.