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
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.
That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.