"What use is equality in theory and in law, if it does not penetrate into our customs?"

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“The revolt was the sepoy; the revolution would have been the people; the revolt was revenge; the revolution would have been the Idea; the revolt was the cruel Vishnu; the revolution would have been the mild Shiva.”

“His glory and greatness suffer from the wrongs he did his fellow men and from the methods he employed.”

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“To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.”

“Cholera and the Thug were born in the same country and in the same year. India is their native land.”

“All impartial men who are moved by justice and not by racialism want India to be ruled by Indians.”

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