"My plea is for banishing the English..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
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“Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.”
“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”
“My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.”
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“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.”
“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”
“That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”