Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

Passive resistance leader who successfully led India in a nonviolent revolution (or Satyagraha) against the British Empire. He was a strong advocate against the caste system in India and worked hard to end segregation (or untouchability) in his country.
  • When was
    Mahatma Gandhi born?

    Mahatma Gandhi was born on Saturday, October 2, 1869

  • Where was
    Mahatma Gandhi born?

    Mahatma Gandhi was born in Portbandar, India

  • How old is
    Mahatma Gandhi?

    Mahatma Gandhi is 155

  • How much is Mahatma Gandhi worth?

    Mahatma Gandhi is worth $1 Thousand


Best Quotes

  • When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.
  • To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
  • Be the change you want to see in the world.
  • An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.
  • I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
  • Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
  • There is no god higher than truth.
  • They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience.
  • Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
  • My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
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