Shaheed Diwas 2023: Bhagat Singh’s Inspiring Quotes to read on his Death Anniversary

The history of Indian independence entails blood, sweat and sacrifices of numerous sons and daughters of the soil. Many names were recorded in the archives, many more were not. However, the country pays tribute to all those who martyred in the freedom struggle by observing Shaheed Diwas.

Shaheed Diwas or Martyr’s Day is celebrated in India on seven different occasions in a year. Among them, one occasion is on March 23 that marks the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh.

Bhagat Singh and his two companions Shivaram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged to death by the British in Lahore Jail on March 23, 1930. They were accused of throwing smoke bombs and political handouts at the Central Legislative Assembly on April 8, 1929 while shouting the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad.’ He was 23 when he was executed.

On the occasion of Bhagat Singh’s death anniversary, here are some inspiring quotes by the revolutionary freedom fighter:

  • ‘Study’ was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
  • In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
  • Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
  • A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
  • Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
  • This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
  • In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
  • Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
  • I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.
  • Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
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