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
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.