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
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.