Freedom Fighter

Quotes & Thinkers in Freedom Fighter

28 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

28 of 28

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

"I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal."

188 quotes

🇵🇰Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Politics

1876–1948

"I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name."

"History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."

"I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful."

"Indians would do well to remember that A. O. Hume, the father of the Indian National Congress, was first led into work for the uplift of India, fifty years ago, by the inspiration of Theosophy."

4 quotes

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Literature

Indian independence movement

1866–1915

"This diamond of India, this jewel of Maharashtra, this prince of workers is taking eternal rest on funeral ground. Look at him and try to emulate him."

"However great the progress of mankind has been, and however far we have advanced in overcoming prejudices, I doubt if we have yet got to the point of view where an English constituency would elect a Blackman."

"No one during the fifty years of freedom has attempted to tell the truth of contemporary history as you have done. So, in whatever form it comes, it is welcome..."

Mahadev Govind Ranade

Law

1842–1901

"We must bear our cross…not because it is sweet to suffer, but because the pain and suffering are as nothing compared with the greatness of the issues involved."

"The condition of the tribals is worse than those inflicted with leprosy. Purna swaraj can only be possible when the poorest of the poor is uplifted."

"We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions."

11 quotes

🇮🇳Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Social Activism

1856–1920

"...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity."

20 quotes

🇮🇳E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Politics

1909–1998

"Sankara was one of the tallest of India's idealist philosophers; his Advaita Vedanta is one of the richest contributions India has made to the treasury of human knowledge."

24 quotes

Lala Lajpat Rai

Politics

Indian independence movement

1865–1928

"‘Every blow that they hurled at us drove one more nail into the coffin of the Empire.’"

"K. C. Kanda: Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry: Text, Translation, and Transliteration, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 2009"

1 quotes

Subhas Chandra Bose

Literature

Indian independence movement

1897–1945

"not only narrow and selfish but arrogant very weak scientific foundation ."

"People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe."

"Non Muslims... are the field of action of 'tabligh' of islam and form the raw material for this splendid activity. Today, by propagating hatred towards the Hindus, this field is being closed and this material wasted."

1 quotes

🇮🇳Jayaprakash Narayan

"In my whole legal career I have not met worse types of criminals than in politics."

"She could be calm in the face of danger because her courage was the outcome of love, not of pride, ‘love ’said Mahatma Gandhi, is hard like a stone and soft like a blossom."

20 quotes