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
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.