Quotes About Independence

The intelligent, autonomous, aspiring young woman with a mind of her own, her own wishes, desires and ambitions, is an individual most Indian men cannot come to terms with.

Indians were always subjects, never citizens; throughout the days of Empire, no Indian could have presumed to say 'I am British' the way a French African was encouraged to say 'Je suis français'.

The racism of the colonial state was also reflected in its penal code. The Criminal Tribes Legislation, 1911, gave authority to the British to restrict movement, search and even detain people from specific groups, because their members were deemed to be chronically engaging in 'criminal' activity. This was bad sociology and worse law, but it stayed on the books till after Independence. Worse, its effects were inhumane.

subjugation of India under British rule.

Brutish' as an acceptable substitute for 'British' rule in India!

Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was 'neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service'.

Still, the British higher education system did little to promote analytic capacity or creative thinking and certainly no independence of mind.

It is a bit rich for the Brits to suppress, exploit, imprison, torture and maim a people for 200 years and then celebrate the fact that they are democratic at the end of it. We weren't given democracy, we had to snatch it from your hands

the Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire in India: To

ruled Pakistan directly for a majority of the years of its existence

He's just my brother now and not my hero. I will not try to be like him. So, then who am I supposed to be like?

In war, as in love—indeed, as in all such areas of so-called human endeavor—expectation tended to outrun execution, particularly when the latter was given a head start in the race, and nowhere did this apply more lamentably, at any rate from the Richmond point of view, than in the wake of Chickamauga, probably the greatest and certainly the bloodiest of all the battles won by the South in its fight for the independence it believed to be its birthright.

alone producing over sixty percent more manufactured goods than the whole Confederacy

Thus, early on, while the people were declared "sovereign," they were precluded from governing.

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Heifer." "Rich man's whore!" "At least mine can cook the food he eats. And replaces it, too." "Now see, Dee-Ann Smith. That was just mean!

Only mavericks live in accordance with their desires, and even they don't often get away with it. They are usually labeled as troublemakers and gotten rid of.

Me ha hablado de la presión social, lo que por lo visto quiere decir dejar que los demás te dirijan la vida.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Each of us - rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white - we are fragile and finite. We all go through this glorious life without guarantees, without promises of rescue or redemption. We have freedom of speech and religion, and the absolute freedom to leave behind our loved ones, or to force them to unhappily pursue us.

It's not like anybody's going to notice if you go away," he said. "So you might as well gut it out." Isn't

If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.

That's right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don't got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha)