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
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.