I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.
Interpretation
Bhagat Singh advocates for political workers to focus on their convictions rather than legal battles.
In this quote, Bhagat Singh expresses the belief that political activists should remain steadfast and resilient in their convictions, prioritizing their political beliefs over personal concerns when facing legal challenges. He argues that the struggle for political change is more important than the legal consequences faced by individuals, suggesting that the integrity of their cause should guide their actions rather than a desire for self-preservation.
In practice
During a political rally, one might reference this quote to inspire activists to remain steadfast despite legal threats.
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.
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Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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