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 plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
President means chief servant
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.