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
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.