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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"Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence."

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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic"

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"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

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"Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith."

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"Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified."

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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

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"The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses."

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"It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out."

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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

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"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

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"Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."

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"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."

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"We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party."

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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

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