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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

— Jawaharlal Nehru Speech to the US Congress (1949)

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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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