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
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.