My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
Interpretation
The quote expresses Bhagat Singh's frustration over the misinterpretation of his intentions during a critical moment, revealing the challenges faced by those who stand up for their beliefs.
In this quote, Bhagat Singh highlights the difficulties he encountered in ensuring his stance and intentions were accurately represented during a time of significant personal sacrifice. His experience during the hunger strike, a powerful act of defiance, was distorted by external narratives, emphasizing the struggle for truth and integrity in the face of oppression and misinformation. Singh's unwillingness to defend himself in a conventional sense illustrates his commitment to his cause and the conviction that his actions spoke louder than words.
In practice
In a speech about human rights, referring to Bhagat Singh's struggle for justice.
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.
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.
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.
People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.
Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.
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