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Ghandi
1869-1948 (Age at death: 79 approx.)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, ; 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha"�resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence"�which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महातà¥à¤®à¤¾ mahÄtmÄ or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપà«, bÄpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he organized protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (240 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930. Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.
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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. |
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. |
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. |
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. |
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. |
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. |
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Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. |
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. |
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Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. |
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Patience means self-suffering. |
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. |
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. |
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. . . . It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. |
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. |
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. |
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. |
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. |
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. |
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. |
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Take care of the means, and the end will take care of itself. |
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