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
My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.