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
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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.
It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.