Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
Gandhi, Mahatma. Young India, 17 Mar. 1927. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 33, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1969, p. 166.
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.