Mahatma Gandhi

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.

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Born
October 2, 1869
Died
January 30, 1948
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"Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life."

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"Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen."

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"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution."

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"If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth."

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"At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth."

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"Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him."

Thinking Use Next
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"The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind."

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"The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience."

Men Self Law
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"Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard."

Faith Real Brave
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"A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it."

Faith People Willing
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"Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed."

Ahimsa Destroyed
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"Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts."

Self Ruins Firsts
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"Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast."

Education Men Hands
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"Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law."

Law Peaceful Rebellion
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"My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence."

Men Essence Opinion
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"Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy."

Democracy Spirit Intolerance
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"A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well."

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