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
It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.
The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.