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
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?