"Gandhi was born in a small seaside town in India on Oct 2, 1869, to a proud businessman
and a devout mother. He was married at age 13. ... At age 18, he was shipped off to law school in England,
where at first he tried to become the perfect westerner, learning how to dance and play the violin.
When he returned to India in 1891, he was unable to find a job, so his relatives suggested he pursue an offer
to practice law for the Indian community in South Africa. Desperate and excited, he boarded a ship to
South Africa in 1893. ... He was traveling overnight by train .... He was quietly reading in a first-class compartment
when a white conductor appeared at the door and ordered him to move immediately to a third-class compartment
or be thrown off the train. Gandhi found himself face to face with institutionalized racism.
He refused to budge, so they beat him up and threw him off the train. He sat all night in the freezing cold
in the middle of nowhere weighing his options. He could return to India, or he could join the handful of violent
revolutionaries ... or he could pursue a third path: peaceful, prayerful, public confrontation with legalized racism
until everyone's civil rights were honored. .. I was afraid for my very life. ... I decided to stay and suffer.
My active nonviolence began from that date."

.... from the book quoted above in the text.

"My life is my message for the world."

"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love,
I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work
just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not.
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist
than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone
far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings."

"We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing
discoveries in the field of violence.
But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible
discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."

"My writings should be cremated with my body.
What I have done will endure, not what I have said or written."

... some of Gandhi's sayings quoted in the book mentioned above.

Gandhi's definition of God from the book quoted above.

" To me, God is Truth and Love.
God is ethics and morality.
God is fearlessness.
God is the source of Light and Life and yet
God is above and beyond all these.
God is conscience.
God is even the atheism of the atheist.
God transcends speech and reason.
God is a personal God to those who needs God's touch.
God is the purest essence.
God simply IS to those who have faith.
God is all things to all people.
God is in us and yet above and beyond us.
God is long-suffering.
God is patient, but God is also terrible.
With God ignorance is no excuse.
And with all, God is ever forgiving
for God always gives us the chance to repent.
God is the greatest democrat the world knows,
for God leaves us 'unfettered' to make our own choice between evil and good.
God is the greatest tyrant ever known,
for God often dashes the cup from our lips and
under the cover of free will
leaves us a margin so wholly inadequate
as to provide only mirth for himself."

Gandhi's statement on Jesus

"Jesus expressed, as no other could, the spirit and will of God.
It is in this sense that I see him and recognize him as the Son of God.
And because the life of Jesus has the significance and the transcendency
to which I have alluded, I believe that he belongs not solely to Christianity,
but the entire world, to all races and people."

on Christianity

"....If Christians will simply cling to the Sermon on the Mount, which
was delivered not merely to the peaceful disciples but a groaning world,
they would not go wrong, and they would find that no religion is false,
and that if they act according to their lights and in the fear of God,
they would not need to worry about organizations, forms of worship and ministry.
The Pharises had all that, but Jesus would have none of it,
for they were using their office as a cloak for hypocrisy and worse.
Cooperation with the forces of Good and noncooperation with the forces of evil
are the two things we need for a good and pure life,
whether it is called Hindu, Muslim, or Christian."