Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
Gandhi, Mahatma. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 64, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1976, p. 110.
Arguing for freedom of the press for his liberal Catholic journal, he contended:
There were other Roman Catholics who used violence including physically attacking the Tithe Collectors. In Ireland at the time the established church—the Protestant Anglican Church of Ireland—had the legal right to collect annual Tithes from the population in order to fund the activities of the Church. One difficulty however, was that the majority of the population were Roman Catholics. The poorest of them could not afford the tithe payments to any church. Whereas in the past, the Protestant Church officials did not force the issue of tithe collection from the poor, in about 1830 they changed and seized the property of the poor (Protestants and Catholics) and auctioned it off to pay for the tithe. The Cardinal organized a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience to combat the Tithe.
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.
