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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"Let our lives be open books for all to study."

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"The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence)."

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"Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness"

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"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?"

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"You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals"

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"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."

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"Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave."

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"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals"

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"All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles."

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"The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose."

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"It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion."

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"In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony."

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"To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record."

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"My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin."

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"My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own."

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"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."

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