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
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Without prayer there is no inward peace.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.