Indian Independence Movement Quotes

The Indian independence leaders, Nehru, Gandhi and others, were products of the West.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

I have never seen any BJP leader going to jail during the freedom struggle; it was only Congressmen who sacrificed for this country.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

Sohan Singh Bhakna, Gurdit Singh, Teja Singh Sutantar, Banta Singh Sanghwal... they are my fathers. Those who gave their lives for freedom are my fathers.

The Muslim demand for the creation of Muslim India within India is … perfectly justified. .... I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-Government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims at least of North-West India

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Putin should prove that he wants to be our friend by declassifying files of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.

Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.