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
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.
I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.