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
it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
Patience means self-suffering.
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
It is the law of love that rules mankind.
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.