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
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.