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
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Life is greater than all art.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.