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
The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.