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
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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.
There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind