Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(A non-Hindu) may not perhaps go with me to the same temple to pray to God, perhaps there may be no intermarriage and inter-dining between him and me. All these are minor questions. But, if a man is exerting himself for the good of India, …

You can never give the Musalmans too much.

It has been shown that Vedic religion and worship are both interglacial; and though that we can not trace their ultimate origin yet the Arctic character of the Vedic deities fully proves that the powers of nature represented by them has …

...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity.

The compilation of hymns into Sanhitas also appears to be a work of the early part of this period.

...for destroying the harmony in the villages by interfering on behalf of the peasants and betraying the moneylender.

The curriculum of the girl’s school should be vernacular, needlework and sanitation...teaching women amounted to the loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanizing impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt …

Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!