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 only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
There go my people, I must hurry to catch up with them for I am their leader.
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.
That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.