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
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?