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 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 Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.
Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.