Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force..
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself..
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow..
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner..
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends..
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face….
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . ..
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms..
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..
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority..
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi..
By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God..
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities..
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of….
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present..
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind..
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind..
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West..
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his ….
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality..
Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam..