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
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.