Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history..
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa..
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun….
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence)..
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves..
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence..
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship..
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise..
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it..
God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves..
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without ….
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit..
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo..
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly..
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen..
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood..
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed..
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones..
You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence..
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men..
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would e….