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
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed
My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
Earth and heaven are in us
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.