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 cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.