- Lived:
- 1869–1948 · Porbandar, London, South Africa, and across India
- Tradition:
- Indian; nonviolent political philosophy built from Hindu, Jain, and Christian materials — and tested on empires
- The Big Idea:
- Truth is the goal and nonviolence is the only means that doesn't betray it — so a wrong must be fought by converting the wrongdoer, never by crushing him, and the fight begins with mastering yourself.
- In their words:
- "My life is my message."
- If you remember one thing:
- He treated his whole life as a laboratory — and his experiment was whether truth and love, deliberately organized, could do what armies do.