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Sarojini Naidu Quotes

1879–1949 India

Sarojini Naidu (13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949), full name Sarojini Chattopadhyaya (Bengali: সরোজিনী চট্টোপাধ্যায়), also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was one of the formers of the Indian Constitution.

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Good Heavens! She said ‘grass and goats milk? Never!’

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh

As a theory of [satyagraha] which must of necessity grow and expand because it carries within itself the immortal function of life. The fire of satyagrha had been kindled in the temple or ashrama where Mahatma Gandhi is the high priest or guru.

Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Quran I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarojini Naidu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.