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
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.