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
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
My religion has no geographical limits.
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.