Freedom and Liberty
9 years ago Shalini B
Have you seen the Independence Day – #Azaadi4me video by Oyo Rooms that is doing the rounds? If you haven’t , watch it here. I woke up to thinking what it would be like if we were still under the British rule. And no! I couldn’t even think about it.
Independence day is one day when we all remember the struggle and sacrifices of all those freedom fighters so that we can wake up to beautiful mornings like today. Thanks to all of those martyrs , the ones we know and the ones who were there in the background and we haven’t heard about! It is so easy to take freedom for granted. Let’s take a couple of minutes today to ponder more about the beautiful things that were said for/about freedom and liberty .
Quotes from our superheroes:
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
 – Chandra Shekhar Azad
Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms! We shall carve our way through the enemy’s ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr’s death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi).
–  Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.
 – Bhagat Singh
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
– BR Ambedkar
Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh Lord ! Grant me a hundred births in Bharat. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Mother land.
– Ramprasad Bismil
One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
– Subhas Chandra Bose
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas. – Bhagat Singh
If a country is to be corruption-free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
– APJ Abdul Kalam
I say it is not your pride that you are a Madrasi, it is not your pride that you a brahmin, it is not your pride that you belong to south India, it is not your pride that you are a Hindu, that it is your pride that you are an Indian.
– Sarojini Naidu
Quotes from across the world:
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
– Denis Waitley
Those who won our independence valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
– Louis D. Brandeis
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
– David Ben-Gurion
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
– Miguel de Cervantes
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
– Voltaire
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
– Ezra Pound
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
– Eric Hoffer
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” –  Max Mueller (German scholar)
Happy Independence Day !
