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?
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?
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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.