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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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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
Vegetarians should have that moral basis—that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
Non-Violence in Peace and War (1948)
My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and valour, so long as we are not free.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
God is truth. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.
It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
An Autobiography (1927)
The prayers of those whose tongues are nectared but whose hearts are full of poison are never heard.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful revolution, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A prayerful heart is the vehicle and service makes the heart prayerful.
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
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