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 religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.