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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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“[There is] ‘an open conspiracy with the Muslim League to bathe the province in blood’... ‘he (the Governor) wanted to hand over power to the Muslim League, whose followers have been indulging in the murder of innocent men, women and children.’ .... “if the Governor wants he can stop all lawlessness in the Frontier in two days, but how can he when he himself is guiding the violent and communal League movement?”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, in a statement on May 6, 1947 accusing the Frontier Governor Sir Olaf Caroe. quoted in Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus inthe Punjab, 1947. Amritsar: Shiromani Gu…
“Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, A Man to Match his Mountains: Bacha Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press, Petaluma, 1984), p. 25.
“My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from the Progressive February 2002
“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is my inmost conviction,” Badshah Khan said, “that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat” – selfless service, faith, and love.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zareef, Adil Saturday, (January 28, 2006) The Demise of a Dream. The Daily Times
“In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have one great desire.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer
“Whenever I had an opportunity to address the people in different parts of our province, I told them clearly that indeed, I was of the opinion that India should not be divided because today in India we have witnessed the result. Thousands and thousands of young and old, children, men, and women were massacred and ruined. But now that the division is an accomplished fact, the dispute is over. " I delivered many speeches against the division of India, but the question is: has anybody listened to me? You may hold any opinion about me, but I am not a man of destruction but of construction. If you study my life, you will find that I devoted it to the welfare of our country. We have proclaimed that if the Government of Pakistan would work for our people and our country the Khudai Khidmatgars would be with them. I repeat that I am not for the destruction of Pakistan. In destruction lies no good. "Neither Hindus nor Muslims, nor the Frontier, not Punjab, Bengal or Sindh stands to gain from it. There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction. If any constructive programme is before you, if you want to do something constructive for our people, not in theory, but in practice, I declare before this House that I and my people are at your service... (February 1948)”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source