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
That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.