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
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.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.