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
That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result
All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions
Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.