The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised during a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famed by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in Republic of South Africa, victimisation new techniques of non-violent direct action that he developed. Returning to Asian country in 1915, he set concerning organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A womb-to-tomb opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out wide to all or any spiritual teams. He became a frontrunner of Muslims complaining the declining standing of the Caliphate. assumptive leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi junction rectifier nationwide campaigns for alleviating financial condition, increasing women's rights, building spiritual and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic independency, and particularly for achieving Swaraj—the independence of Asian country from British domination. His religious teacher was the religion philosopher/poet Shrimad Rajchandra.
Popular Quotes Mahatma Gandhi About Religion
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1. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
2. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
3. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
5. “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.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
6. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
7. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
8. “Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
9. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
10. “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.”
― Mahatma Gandhi