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
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.
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.
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:
Violent means will give violent freedom.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.