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
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.