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
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'