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Mohandas Gandhi

The Satyagrahi

Mohandas Gandhi

1869–1948 · Porbandar, India · South Asian

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An Indian lawyer and leader of the independence movement who developed satyagraha, nonviolent resistance grounded in truth.

Key work: Hind Swaraj (1909)

“The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree.”

Hind Swaraj (1909), chapter 16

Key ideas, in brief (in our words)

  • Hold to truth, and let the means stay as clean as the end.

  • Nonviolence is a force, not a pause.

  • Change begins in the life you are willing to live.

Read more: Wikipedia

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