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
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.