<P> The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement . He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement, best described by his call to Do or Die . His speech was issued at the Gowalia Tank Maidan park in Bombay (now Mumbai), since renamed August Kranti Maidan (August Revolution Ground). However, almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty - four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest of the war in jail . Gandhi made this speech to help India gain Independence . </P> <P> Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you . I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if you approve of it, you will be enjoined to carry out all I say . It will be a great responsibility . There are people who ask me whether I am the same man that I was in 1920, or whether there has been any change in me . You are right in asking that question . </P>

Who gave the call for do or die