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
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.
Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.
A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.