Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

Mahatma Gandhi was a leader in India's struggle for independence, known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance and commitment to truth.

Born
October 2, 1869
Died
January 30, 1948
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"The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society."

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"Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?"

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"The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities."

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"Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana."

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"Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction."

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"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

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"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

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"Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself."

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"The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism."

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"For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him."

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"Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within."

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"If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d."

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"There is no path to peace; peace is the path."

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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

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"The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence"

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"A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God."

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