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
I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
Buddhism in one long prayer.
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.