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Shaheed
Bhagat
Singh
Notes & quotes from the
books he read. Here are few of
these.
"Ah my beloved, fill the
cup that clears
Todays of past Regrets and future Fears
Tomorrow? _ why, Tomorrow I may
be
Myself with
yesterdays Sevn's thousand year."
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Here with a loaf Bread
beneath the Bough
A flask of wine, a Book of verse-and thou
Beside me signing in the
widerness
And
wilderness in paradise now!
"Ummar
Khayyam"
Natural and Civil Rights
Man did not enter into society to
become worse then he was before, but to have those rights better secured.
His natural rights are the foundation of all his civil
rights.
Natural
rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence
(intellectual mental etc.)
Civil rights are those that appertain
to man in right of his being a member of society.
Rights of Man - Thomas
Paine
Morality
"Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters
for the means of sustaining life and crouches behind barrels in the street
for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night."
Right of
labour
We
consider it horrible that people should have their heads cut off, but we
have not been taught to see the horror of life - long death which is
inflicted upon a whole population by poverty and tyranny. - Mark Twain
The Old
labourer
"….He (the old labourer out of employment) was struggling against
age, against nature, against circumstances, The entire weight of society,
law and order pressed upon him to force him to loose his self respect and
liberty.. He knocked at the doors of the farms and found good in man only
- not in law and order, but in individual man alone". -
Richerd Jefferies.
Free Thought
"If there is anything that cannot bear
free thought, let it crack" - Windell Phillips
One Against
All
(Charles Fourier 1772-1837)
The present social order is a
ridiculous mechanism, in which portion of the whole are in conflict and
acting against the whole are in conflict and acting against the whole. We
see each class in society desire, from interest, the misfortune of the
other classes, placing in every way individual interest in opposition to
public good. The lawyer wishes litigation and suits. Particularity among
the rich; the physician desires sickness (The leter would be ruined if
every body died without disease as would The former if all quarrels were
settled by arbitration) The soldier wants a war which will carry off half
of his burrials; monopolist and forestallers went famine, to double or
treble the price of grain; the architect, the carpenter, the mason want
conflagration, That will burn down a hundred houses to give activity to
their branches of business.
Liberty
Not a grave for the murder'd
for freedom, But grow seeds for freedom, in its turn to
bearseeds
Which
the wind carry a far and resow, and the rains and the snows
nourish.
Not a
disembodies spirit can the weapons of tyrant let loose
But it stale invincible over
the earth whispering counselling, cautioning. - (Walt Whitmen)
Will of
Revolutionary
" I also wish my friends to speak little or not at all about
me, because idols are created when men are praised and this is very bad
for the future of the human race…..Acts alone, no metter by whom committed
out to be studied, praised or blamed. Let them be praised in order that
they may be initiated when they seem to contribute to the common weal; let
them be ceusured when they are regarded as injurious to the general well
being, so that they may not be repeated."
"I desire that on no occasion,
whether near or remote, nor for any reason whatsoever, shall
demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my
remains as I consider the time devoted to the dead would be better
employed in improving the conditions of the living, most of whom stand in
great need of this." - Will of Frenscisco Ferrer Spanish educator
(1859-1909)
Glory of the Cause
Ah! Not for idle hatred,
not
For honour,
fame, nor self applause
But for the glory of the cause
You did, what will not be
forgot
-
(Arthur clough)
The mechine is social in nature, as the tool was
individual
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"Give us worse cotton, but give us better men" say
Emerson
"Deliver me those
rickety perishing souls of infants, and let the cotton trade take its
chance."
The men cannot be
sacrificed to the machine. The machine must serve mankind, yet the danger
to the human race lurks, menacing, in the industrial region - Poverty & Riches Scott
Nearing
Man
and Mankind
"I am a man and all
that affects mankind concerns
me"
- (Page 43 of Jail
notebook)
Aim of
life
"The
aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously,
not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here
below, and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation,
but also in-the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends
not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment democracy or
universal brotherhod can be achieved only when there is an equality of
opportunity of opportunity in the social, political and individual
life." (Page 124 of Jail
notebook)
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