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
Concentrate on your task.
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains
Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.