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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"A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man."

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"You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead."

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"What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face."

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"What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise."

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"The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God."

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"Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."

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"My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice."

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"My fast is a matter between God and myself."

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"My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face."

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"My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God."

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"Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now."

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"It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will."

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"It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God."

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"If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity."

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"For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing."

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"For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness."

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"By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God."

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"I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions."

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"I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity."

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