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
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.