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
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.