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
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
... in the midst of death life persists ...