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
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.