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
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.
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.