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
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.