| If a God were to tolerate untouchability, I would not recognize him a God at all. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| He has in him the marvellous spiritual power to turn ordinary men around him into heroes and martyrs. | Gopal Krishna Gokhale on Gandhiji |
| This diamond of India, the jewel of Maharashtra, this prince of workers is taking eternal rest on the funeral ground, look at him and try to emulate him | Bal Gangadhar Tilak on Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| When I went to jail the whole country was alive with the cry of Bande Mataram... when I came out of jail I listened for that cry, but there was instead a silence | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas | Bhagat Singh |
| One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Every blow on our bodies this afternoon is like a nail driven into the coffin of British imperialism | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. | B.R. Ambedkar |
| No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress...if an Indian had come forward to start such a movement embracing all Indians, the officials in India would not have allowed the movement to come into existence. | Gopal Krishna Gokhale on Indian National Congress |
| Our nation is like a tree and to the original trunk of Swarajya, two huge branches have emerged in the form of Swadeshi and Boycott | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| There is no dream, and if there is,there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished | Ashfaqulla Khan |