Mahatma Gandhi
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 Mahatma Gandhi       (Lawyer, Politician, Activist, Writer) | |
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| Born | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-10-02 Gujarat, British Indian Empire (Now India) |
| Died | 30 January 1948 (Age 78) New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Bhavnagar, University College London |
| Parents | • Karamchand Gandhi • Putlibai Gandhi |
| Children | • Harilal • Manilal • Ramdas • Devdas |
| Spouse | Kasturba Gandhi |
| Interest of | James Douglass |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
Indian non-violent revolutionary sage | |
“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi [1]
Related Quotation
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| Pacifism | “the only intelligent, realistic, expedient program which Gandhi had at his disposal; and that the ‘morality’ which surrounded this policy of passive resistance was to a large degree a rationale to cloak a pragmatic program with a desired and essential moral cover…. Confronted with the issue of what means he could employ against the British, we come to the other criteria previously mentioned; that the kind of means selected and how they can be used is significantly dependent upon the face of the enemy, or the character of his opposition. Gandhi’s opposition not only made the effective use of passive resistance possible but practically invited it. His enemy was a British administration characterized by an old, aristocratic, liberal tradition, one which granted a good deal of freedom to its colonials and which always had operated on a pattern of using, absorbing, seducing, or destroying, through flattery or corruption, the revolutionary leaders who arose from the colonial ranks. This was the kind of opposition that would have tolerated and ultimately capitulated before the tactic of passive resistance.” | Saul Alinsky | 1972 |
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