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The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future? [...] Nevertheless the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people.

Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Parliamentary Debates [Parliament of India] Pt.2 V.12-13 (1951)

Peace is not only an absolute necessity for us in India in order to progress and develop but also of paramount importance to the world.

Speech at Columbia University (1949)

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Speech at Columbia University (1949)

These people [the RSS] have the blood of Mahatma Gandhi on their hands and pious disclaimers and dissociation now have no meaning.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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