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
I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.