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
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.