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
If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.
Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.
For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.