Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.
Gandhi, Mahatma. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 54, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1973, p. 407.
He would not allow himself to be buried in a cemetery that would not allow Blacks. He was laid to rest in Shreiner's Cemetery, one of the very few racially integrated cemeteries at the time.
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.