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
Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.
God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
God is always the upholder of justice.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.