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
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.