3/05/2006

Great Article... here are some quotes I liked:

Modern History Sourcebook:
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920):
Address to the Indian National Congress, 1907

"...Two new words have recently come into existence with regard to our politics, and they are Moderates and Extremists. These words have a specific relation to time, and they, therefore, will change with time. The Extremists of today will be Moderates tomorrow, Just as the Moderates of today were Extremists yesterday...

...This whole government [British gov.] is carried on with our assistance and they try to keep us in ignorance of our power of cooperation between ourselves by which that which is in our own hands at present can be claimed by us and administered by us...

...it is the business of every one of them to befool you in believing that you are weak and they are strong. This is politics. We have been deceived by such policy so long. What the new party wants you to do is to realize the fact that your future rests entirely in your own hands. If you mean to be free, you can be free; if you do not mean to be free, you will fall and be for ever fallen..."

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920): Address to the Indian National Congress, 1907, reprinted in William T. de Bary et al., Sources of Indian Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 719-723.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1907tilak.html

2 Comments:

At 3/08/2006 7:08 am , Blogger Edward Ott said...

I really like the quotes and thank you for putting a link to the entire article.

Salam

 
At 3/08/2006 10:55 am , Anonymous Anonymous said...

wa `alaykum al salam, thank you for your comment, and i'm glad you enjoyed the quote.

 

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