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
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.
Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.