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
The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.
By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.