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
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding