Chittaranjan Das Quotes
When I consider the objections put forward to the grant of self-government I can hardly keep my patience. What is it that they say? They say that we are not educated enough to get self-government. My answer is: whose fault is it? For the last 150 years you have been governing this country and yet you have not succeeded in educating the people of this country to such an extent that they may be fit for governing themselves.
Chittaranjan Das, 1870–1925, Indian Politician, Speech, March 18, 1918
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Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu (Friend of the Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party (Independence party) in Bengal during British occupation in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das.
