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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.