A Quote by Agnes Smedley
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.
India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called 'the golden bird'. We have fallen from where we were before. But now we have the chance to rise again. If you see the details of the last five or ten centuries, you will see that India and China have grown at similar paces. Their contributions to global GDP have risen in parallel, and fallen in parallel. Today's era once again belongs to Asia. India and China are both growing rapidly, together. That is why India needs to remain India.
We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.
I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.
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