Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan quotes

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a prominent Pashtun independence activist and social reformer from British India. Known as the "Frontier Gandhi," he advocated nonviolent resistance against British colonial rule. He remains an enduring symbol of peace and unity in South Asia. Here are 8 of his quotes:

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

I have one great desire.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed 'by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people'.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan