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1869–1948 India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
India Activists Journalists Lawyers Memoirists Also known as: Gandhi, Gandhi, Mahatma, Mahatma Ghandi, Mohandas Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country.
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Posthumous publications (1950)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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.
I have no doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process, that it is harmful in the end and that it is little short of taking beef.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Posthumous publications (1950)
Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today.
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
"The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice."
Hind Swaraj (1909)
The very word Islam means peace, which is non-violence.
On Trial (1939)
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