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 nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.