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
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
The sole aim of journalism should be service.
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.