Great Leaders of History: Ghandi Quotes & Timeline

Ghandi Timeline

1869: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born. Location: Porbandar, Gujarat.

1893: Gandhi moves to Johannesburg to practice law. A seminal event, he is thrown out of an establishment due to the color of his skin

1906: At 37, stepping out unknowingly as one of the great leaders of history, he speaks at a large meeting, launching a campaign of nonviolent resistance and protesting discrimination against Indians. Fanning the flames, the British government had recently invalidated Indian Marriage. See Ghandi Quotes #1 below.

1913: In Transvaal, South Africa, he leads 2,500 people of Indian origin in defiance of another law. Authorities arrest them using violence. Refusing to pay the fine, Ghandi is jailed, triggering a demonstration by his followers. Police fire at large into the crowd. Two are killed and 20 more injured. See Ghandi Quotes #5.

1914: At 45, Mohandas Gandhi returns to India and organizes a political campaign of passive resistance. His goal is to protest mistreatment by whites and to defend immigrants from Asia. He starts his first of 14 fasts, attracting widespread attention in India. He launched the concept of political fasting.

1930: First anti-British civil disobedience campaign, with Ghandi being supported by the All-India Trade Congress. He leads a 165 mile protest march to the Arabian Sea. There, as a gesture of peaceful protest, he produces salt by evaporation of sea water. This is in violation of a nasty British law protecting their salt monopoly.

1932: Servant leadership takes a powerful turn. Gandhi begins a fast unto death in support of the untouchables, India’s lower caste, who are being mistreated by the British government. He calls them Harijans – God’s Children. He is jailed, and now urges a boycott of British goods. He succeeds in winning improvements for the untouchables.

1947: India declares freedom from 200 years of British Rule. See Ghandi Quotes # 7

1948: Gandhi assassinated by a Hindu fanatic

Great Leaders of History: Ghandi Quotes on Communication & Leadership

2. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

3. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

4. Action expresses priorities.

5. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

6. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

7. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

8. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

9. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

10. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

11. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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