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
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.