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
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
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.
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.
God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.