Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
Gandhi, Mahatma. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 71. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1978, p. 210.
He had been King of Portugal and then had come to the Portuguese colony of Brazil where he led a revolution against Portugal, declared independence from the “mother country, and was elected as Emperor of Brazil. The Colony was much larger and richer in natural resources than the “mother country.”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.