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
Man can only describe God in his own poor language.
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.