Best British Rule Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.”

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Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

Source: My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.”

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Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.”

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.”

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Author:Syama Prasad Mukherjee

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”

Source: Orwell and Politics

“More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.”

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Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.”

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Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

“There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].”

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Author:Thein Sein

“The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.”

“Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have.”

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.”

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.”

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Author:Martin McGuinness

“The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory”

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Author:Thomas MacDonagh

“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.”

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Author:Cecil Rhodes