Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj..
No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me..
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy..
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica..
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff..
I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood th….
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind..
I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed..
I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or a….
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act..
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds..
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth..
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way..
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman..
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced..
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail..
Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution..
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa..
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..
Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness..
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence..