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
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding