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
I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.