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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"God is the shield of the nonviolent."

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"God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience."

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"God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision."

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"God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself."

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"God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal."

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"God has His own way of choosing His instruments."

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"God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision."

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"It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration."

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"To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread."

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"Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway."

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"Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not."

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"What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana."

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"Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head."

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"If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges."

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"There are unjust laws as there are unjust men."

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"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always."

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"One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects."

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"It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom."

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"A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship."

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