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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"Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races."

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"I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ."

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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

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"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

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"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another."

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"The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence."

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"Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence."

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"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."

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"With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests."

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"Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex."

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"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."

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"I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness."

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"Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants."

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"You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher."

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"However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes."

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"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."

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"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."

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