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
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.
If you want a change in the world, be the change
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.