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
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.