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
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Let us work together for unity and love.
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding