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
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
People become what they expect themselves to become
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
People cannot hurt you without your permission.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.