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
If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.