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
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.