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
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
In Gujarat Hitler's life and works have been glorified in school textbooks which is a very serious matter,
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice
What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
Be the change you want to see in the world.