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
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.
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
Religion should be dearer than life itself.
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.