Uncompromising Resolve Quotes
Ironically, events later supported the truth of his statement. He was wrong about the parties however. It was the South who denied liberty to a very large part of their population, and it was the “unconquerable will” of the enslaved Negroes that eventually prevailed. It is hard for most of us in modern times to understand why Davis and other Southerners saw themselves as having freedom curtailed over an economic factor—chattel slavery—and not see that the institution of slavery was a total denial of freedom to a huge part of their population. See England’s Dr. Johnson XXXXX for a classic contemporary statement of this contradiction.
At the time, the Muslim League did not even represent the majority of Muslims of India. . In a number of areas—Kashmir being the most notable—there were a majority of Muslims yet enough of them preferred to remain with India than be part of Pakistan as they were Islamic moderates and did not want to be part of a Muslim Pakistan that might pressure them or force them to a more rigid form of Islam. Also many valued democracy and religious freedom. Some doubted Pakistan's likelihood of thriving in its own and preferred the stability of India. Jinnah always claimed that Pakistan would allow complete freedom of religion, but once Pakistan was created Islamic fundamentalist pressure pushed it more and more to intolerance and religious persecution of other religions. By the 21st century, Pakistan had become one of the most intolerant nations on earth.
Your ideas of democracy are The Zemstvos had come to plead for reforms from the young Czar who most Russians hoped would be more modern than his all-powerful and dictatorial father. In a sense, it was this quotation that drove many moderate Russians to the radical side, and the quotation was used as a recruiting toll by both the Communist and non-Communist anti-Czarist Russians.
