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- Full name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- British-educated lawyer and student of Hindu philosophy
- Imprisoned many times in both South Africa and India on various charges of civil disobedience
- The United Nations declared October 2nd International Day of Non-Violence
- Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse
- Godse and a co-conspirator were executed for the crime in November 1949
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Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual and political leader of India and an advocate of nonviolence. After Gandhi's death, his philosophy on peaceful resistance lived on through the Civil Rights Movement and continue to resonate decades later.
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About Gandhi
At the age of thirteen, Gandhi entered an arranged marriage to Kasturba Makhanji. By the age of eighteen, he left India to study law at the University College London. When he returned home, Gandhi set up a law office in Bombay and soon after left for South Africa where he worked and faced anti-Indian discrimination. From this experience, Gandhi returned once again to India and decided to open an ashram to focus more on his spirituality. With local help, he tried to help poor villages and by 1921, was named the leader of the Indian National Congress. With this acknowledgment, Gandhi introduced his philosophies on peaceful resistance, a concept he learned after being arrested by the British for aiding those who were oppressed by the British administration.Time: Mohandas Gandhi(April 13, 1998) -
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Gandhi Quotes Questions
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Quotes by Gandhi
- "We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."
- "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
- "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- "Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
- "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."
- "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- "I think it would be a good idea!" (in reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?")
- "Physical training should have as much place on the curriculum as mental training."
- "I regard women as an incarnation of tolerance."
- "Selfishness is blind."
- "Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
- "Religion in its broadest sense means self-realization or knowledge of self."
- "As a man eats so shall he become."
- "Hate the sin and not the sinner."
- "True beauty consists in purity of heart."
- "Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."
- "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
- "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."
- "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- "I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
- "The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
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@Karoli Gandhi quote is disputed (see wikiquote http://is.gd/7Zmb7 ) - many tweeted quotes are good but wrong. Too bad.
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RT @donotgiveup: To lose patience is to lose the battle. Mahatma Gandhi #quotes (via @onlyoneHalcyone)
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To lose patience is to lose the battle. Mahatma Gandhi #quotes
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RT @ChrisOzcan: Bob Geldof quotes Gandhi 'first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win #OYW
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