(56 quotes found)
“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
Contributed by: robert
Jawaharlal Nehru
“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”
“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?”
“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Is it so hard to discuss facts as they happened? It seems so, even though there are documents to back these realities, this "us and them" mentality continues to be propagated and perpetrated”
Helena Dalli
“From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Samuel F. Smith
“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”
Hamilton Fish
“We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
Ricardo Flores Magon
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