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
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.