If there is one place on the face of the earth Where al l the dreams of living men Have found home from the very earliest days When man began the dream of existence… It is

Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.”

God never made man that he may consider another man as an untouchable To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable, or invisible, is to deny God.

Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, Satyam [the true], Shivam [the god], Sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people. It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

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. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

in the Indian Freedom Struggle

I emphasise that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. "Inquilab Zindabad!"

A R Rahman-Vande Mataram

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake." "Geetanjali" - Rabindranath Tagore