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 are to reach peace in this world and if we are to carry on a war against war, we shall have to begin with the children
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.