Mahatma Gandhi Posters & Art Prints, pg 1

Gandhi Wall Poster
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”

Mahatma Gandhi
b. 10-2-1869; Porbandar, India
d. 1-30-1948

“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.”

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Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Nationalist and Spiritual Leader, Sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone

Mahatma Gandhi & Charlie Chaplin Meet in East London, Sept 23, 1931

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Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi reading as he sits cross legged on floor, photograph by Margaret Bourke-White.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Charkha, the Hindu word of wheel (from the Persian), is the mechanism used in India for spinning cotton fiber into yarn. Gandhi used the charkha as a means of promoting village and gaining independence life during non-cooperation movement.

• “In my dream, in my sleep, while eating, I think of spinning wheel. The spinning wheel is my sword. To me it is the symbol of India's liberty.”
• “I would make the wheel the centre round which all other activities will revolve.”
• “The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.”
• “...The spinning-wheel enables us to identify ourselves with cores. The millionaires imagine that money can bring them anything in the world. But it is not so. At any moment death might come and snuff them out…. Losing one's life…is not the same thing as shedding 'self'. One has to learn to efface self or the ego voluntarily and as a sacrifice in order to find God. The spinning-wheel rules out exclusiveness. It stands for all inclusiveness. It stands for all including the poorest. It, therefore, requires us to be humble and to cast away pride completely.”

NEWS - ... an e-charkha, a hand-operated spinning wheel that produces yarn and generating enough electricity to store and to power up the specially-designed LED light source. [the kid powered pump]

Salt is an essential component of the human diet, regulating the exchange of water between cells, and as a preservative where refrigeration is not available.

In the spring of 1930 Gandhi led a non-violent protest against the salt monopoly imposed by the British Colonial laws. The salt laws forbid the “manufacture of salt, the possession and trading of smuggled salt or to collect salt from the natural deposits at the coast”.

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