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
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.
Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.