“Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi · Action quote

Leader of Indian independence movement · 1869 – 1948

Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement; pioneered satyagraha and became the father of the Indian nation.

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