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 have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.
Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.