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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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We who seek justice will have to do justice to others.
Hind Swaraj (1909)
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Dharma is one and only one. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
Fundamentals of Gandhism (1995)
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
Disobedience without civility, discipline, discrimination, non-violence, is certain destruction. Disobedience combined with love is the living water of life. Civil disobedience is a beautiful variant to signify growth, it is not discordance which spells death.
I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power.
The Doctrine Of The Sword (1920)
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
The most distinctive and largest contribution by Hinduism to India’s culture is the doctrine of Ahimsa.
Fundamentals of Gandhism (1995)
Therefore, it is that Hinduism calls it all His sport — Lila, or calls it an illusion— Maya.
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
Posthumous publications (1950)
But to me both the parties [Axis and Allies] seem to be tarred with the same brush.
True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
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