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
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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.