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
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.