Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, on October 2, 1869. Lal Bahadur Shastri, another Indian leader and statesman, shares Gandhi’s birthday. Mahatma Gandhi, a lawyer whose life was transformed by his experiences in South Africa, was the most influential figure in India’s independence campaign.
Gandhi successfully led various Satyagraha and Ahimsa protests to liberate India from British colonial tyranny. He committed his life to the fight for liberty. His nonviolent attitude and ability to win people over with love and compassion had a significant effect on the Indian civil rights struggle. Nathuram Godse killed him on January 30, 1948.
Gandhi Jayanti is observed every year on October 2. It falls on Monday this year and commemorates Mahatma Gandhi’s 154th birthday.
Here Are Some Famous Quotes On Mahatma Gandhi By Emminent Personalities
- His simplicity of life is child-like, his adherence to truth is unflinching his love for mankind is positive and aggressive. He has what is known as the Christ-spirit: Rabindranath Tagore
- Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this, ever in flesh and blood, walked upon this earth: Albert Einstien
- The world civilization and thought of the child, this is what links us and brings us together in your presence: Maria Montessori
- The great Goethe and Indian humanist Saint Gandhi have made the deepest impress on my life and philosophy Both achieve inner fulfilment through the order of love-principal: Albert Schweitzer
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social-contracts theory of Hobbes, the “back to nature” optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the non-violent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. Martin Luther King.
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