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
one needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended gainst the heaviet odds
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Be the change you want to see in the world.