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
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.
Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.