Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation..
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves..
To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice..
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being corre….
Non-violence is the article of faith..
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason..
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live..
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If th….
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place..
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty..
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God..
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement..
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive..
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it..
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong..
If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British..
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism..
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm..
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest..
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization..
The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom..