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The people of East Pakistan will owe it to the million who have died in the cyclone to make the supreme sacrifice of another million lives, if need be, so that we can live as a free people.

— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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Addressing a rally before the 1970 general elections in Pakistan.

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