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
Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
We may attack systems. We must not attack men.
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.