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
God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Well, India is a country of nonsense
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.