Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West..
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it..
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food..
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course….
Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints..
Faith is the function of the heart..
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident..
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head..
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recrea….
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent..
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness..
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior..
We do not know the laws of God, nor their working..
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freel….
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other ….
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live..
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour..
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings..
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so..