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
I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
Labour is priceless, not gold.
Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable
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