Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Diversity

• Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Civilization, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.34, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Land, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Men, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Civilization

• Live simply so that others may simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

• In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Diversity, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, People, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.55, A&C Black

• Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Diversity, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Respect, Sacrifice, Views

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Buddhist, Diversity

• I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fall, Diversity

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