Bal Gangadhar Tilak

“Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!”

“Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.”

“Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor the educational scheme will be useful to the nation…To make efforts for India’s freedom is more important than social reforms.”

“If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.”

“It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.”

“...for destroying the harmony in the villages by interfering on behalf of the peasants and betraying the money lender.”

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

“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 been already clothed with divine attributives by the primitive Aryans in their original home round about the North Pole, or the Meru of the Puranas.”

“The Vedic hymns were sung in post glacial times (8,000BC) by poets who had inherited their knowledge or contents thereof from their antediluvian forefathers.”

“It is true that lack of rain causes famine but it is also true that the people of India have not the strength to fight the evil. The poverty of India is wholly due to the present rule. India is being bled till only the skeleton remains…all the vitality of the people is being sapped and we are left in an emaciated state of slavery.”