“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech, and earnestness in action.”
“Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached.”
"They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit."
"Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it.”
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