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“Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.”

“Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.”

Needs May Grows Sacrifice Blood Tears Flower Fine Flow India Soil

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.”

People I Can Whole Lasts Dies Blood Proud India Breaths

Author:Indira Gandhi

“India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.”

Courses Father Strong Blood India Very Strong Grandfather My Grandfather Affinity Strong Family

Author:John Gimlette

“You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!”

Stills Two Today Found Sides Blood Brother India British Uncles Pakistan Cousin Unnatural Ambassadors Switzerland Nephew Partition Blood Brothers

Author:Indira Gandhi

“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.”

“Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.”

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.”

Differences Blood Land Majors India Celebrate Belonging Commonality

Book:Bookless In Baghdad

Source: Bookless In Baghdad

“He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.”

Source: Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour

“India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi).”

Ifs Way Lasts Dies Loses Sleep Enemy Blood Arms Calling Kissing India Army Gods Will Get Up March Martyr Delhi India Independence Day

Book:Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.”

Should May Today Faces Desire Dies Path Blood Should Have India Army Martyr

Book:A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Source: A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

“Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.”

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?”

“. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.”

Said Reason Spirit Nations Difficult Animal Steps Blood Sea Appreciate India Worthy Reason Why Sentiments Animal Rights Ancestor Savages Brutes Wholesale

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda