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 weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.