Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God..
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love..
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow..
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist..
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the ….
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West..
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants..
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms..
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner..
You will not pit one word of God against another word of God..
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..
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind..
Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence..
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself..
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..
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy..
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth..
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..
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff..
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act..
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..