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We shall not look at caste or religion. All human beings in this land — whether they be those who preach the vedas or who belong to other castes — are one.

— Subramanya Bharathi

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Unbearable becomes the pain in my heart —
When I think of my people, broken down,
broken by disease in mind and limb.

Fools! Do you argue, that things ancient ought, on that account, to be true and noble!

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry — it is he who is a poet.

In ancient times, do you think that there was not the ignorant, and the shallow minded? And why after all should you embrace so fondly a carcass of dead thoughts.

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