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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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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.
I do not regard Jainism or Buddhism as separate from Hinduism. Hinduism believes in the oneness not of merely all human life but in the oneness of all that lives.
Posthumous publications (1950)
"You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
I have always held that social justice, even to the least and lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Disobedience is a right that belongs to every human being, and it becomes a sacred duty when it springs from civility.
I have nothing of the communalist in me, because my Hinduism is all-inclusive.
Hindus should never be angry against the Muslims even if the latter might make up their minds to undo even their existence.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
I regard the employment of the atom bomb for the wholesale destruction of men, women and children as the most diabolical use of science.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
A man of truth must also be a man of care.
An Autobiography (1927)
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
He is fit neither to be a husband nor a father, nor a brother.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.
Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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