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
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.