Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer, our answer, all our answer must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.

There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

We wanted to bring attention to the fact that we had so many deals taking place that we could have made change for the better for all people, and we felt that we would be a catalyst to bring this to attention to society.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.