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
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.