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
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.