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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“We are starting the state with no discrimination ... we should keep that in front of us as our ideal, and you will find that in course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as the citizens of the nation.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on the day he was elected president of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, Jinnah in a moving speech, quoted in M. J. Akbar, India: The Siege Within (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1985) p 34. As q…
“I part company with the Congress and Mohandas K. Gandhi. I do not believe in working up mob hysteria. Politics is a gentleman's game.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to journalist Durga Das in London (December 1920) as quoted in Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity : The Search for Saladin (1997) by Akbar S. Ahmed, p. 67
“Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics….Religion is merely a matter between man and God.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Central Legislative Assembly, 7 February 1935, also quoted in The Search for Saladin, p. 67
“Today, unfurling the Muslim League flag, I want to reaffirm with all the emphasis at my command that we stand for Pakistan and for faith, unity and discipline. I am confident that we will acquire a place in this land where we may live honourably according to Islamic tradition and culture and it is in your hands...!”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Public address, Urdu Park in New Delhi, 23 October 1941
“Islam stands for justice, equality, fair play, toleration and even generosity to non-Muslims who may be under our protection. They are like brothers to us and would be the citizens of the State.”
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Recorded in: Address at The Muslim University Union in Aligarh, 2 November, 1941
“There are millions and millions of our people who hardly get one meal a day. Is this civilization? Is this the aim of Pakistan? Do you visualize that millions have been exploited and cannot get one meal a day! If that is the idea of Pakistan. I would not have it.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential Address Delivered at the Thirtieth Session of All-India Muslim League, 24 April 1943
“The Press is great power and it can do good as well as harm. If rightly conducted, it can guide and instruct public opinion.”
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Recorded in: Talk with Journalists of Kashmir, 23 May 1944
“Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans who look upon complete equality of manhood, Musalmans (Muslims) believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Kingsway Hall, London, 13 December 1946
“Pakistan is going to be a state in which all people will get their due share in all the amenities of life.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address, Memon Chamber of Commerce, Bombay, 27 March 1947
“Sooner you come down to reality the sooner you will solve the problem.”
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Recorded in: Address, Memon Chamber of Commerce, Bombay, 27 March 1947
“I am proud that I am not the Governor-General who was an agent of another power but a Governor-General who is chosen by the people…. It is our sacred duty to look after the poor and to help them.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Public address, Karachi Club, 9 August 1947
“With determination, courage, solidarity and with the help of every citizen we shall make this state a real power.”
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Recorded in: Public address, Karachi Club, 9 August 1947
“I cannot emphasise it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities — the Hindu community and the Muslim community — because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalese, Madrasis and so on — will vanish.”
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Recorded in: Address to the First Constituent Assembly, 11 August 1947
“If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well being of the people and especially of the masses and the poor.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August 1947
“You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed, that has nothing to do with the business of State.”
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Recorded in: Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August, 1947
“It should be our aim not only to remove want and fear of all types, but secure liberty, fraternity and equality as enjoined upon us by Islam.”
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Recorded in: Address, Karachi Municipal Corporation, 25 August 1947
“God has given us a grand opportunity to show our worth as architects of a new State; let it not be said that we did not prove equal to the task.”
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Recorded in: Address to Civil, Military and Air Force Officers, 11 October, 1947
“Never forget our motto "Unity, Discipline and Faith”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech from Radio Pakistan at Lahore, 30 October 1947
“Work, work and work and we are bound to success.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech from Radio Pakistan at Lahore, 30 October 1947
“A nation can never progress unless it marches in one formation. We are all Pakistanis and citizens of the state and we should serve, sacrifice and die for the state so that we may make it the most glorious and sovereign state in the world.”
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Recorded in: Address to Bar Association of Karachi, 25 January 1948
“We follow the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in right, dignity and self-respect. Consequently we have a special and very deep sense of unity.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast Talk to the People of Australia, 19 February, 1948
“We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions and are fully alive to our responsibilities and obligations as framers of the future constitution of Pakistan.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast talk on Pakistan to the people of the United States of America, Karachi, 26 February 1948
“In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state —to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims —Hindus, Christian and Parsis—but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan”
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Recorded in: Broadcast talk on Pakistan to the people of the United States of America, Karachi, 26 February 1948
“If you build up yourself into a nation···. Give up this provincialism. Provincialism has been one of the curses; and so is sectionalism— Shia, Sunni, etc.”
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Recorded in: Public Address at Dacca, 21 March 1948
“Brotherhood, equality and fraternity of man—these are all the basic points of our religion, culture and civilization. And we fought for Pakistan because there was a danger of denial of these human rights in this sub-continent.”
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Recorded in: Address to Public Reception in Chittagong, 26 March, 1948
“If we begin to think of ourselves as Punjabis, Sindhis, etc. first and Muslims and Pakistanis incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate. Do not think that this is some abstruse proposition: our enemies are fully alive to its possibilities which I must warn you that they are already busy exploiting.”
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Recorded in: Radio Broadcast from Dacca, 28 March 1948
“Our duty to the State comes first; our duty to our province to your district, to our town and to our village and ourselves comes next. **Speech at Islamia College in Peshawar, 12 April 1948”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Develop a sound sense of discipline, character, initiative and a solid academic background. You must devote yourself wholeheartedly to your studies, for that is your first obligation to yourselves, your parents and to the State. You must learn to obey, for only then you can learn to command.”
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Recorded in: Reply to the Address Presented by Islamia College Students, Peshawar, 12 April 1948
“This is your government. It is quite different from its predecessors. Therefore, appreciate when a good thing is done. Certainly criticize fearlessly, when a wrong thing is done. I welcome criticism, but it must be honest and constructive.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at Edwards College in Peshawar, 18 April 1948
“We are now all Pakistanis, not Balochis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on and as Pakistanis we must feel, behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.”
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Recorded in: Reply to the Civil Address Presented by the Quetta Municipality,15 June, 1948
“Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1
“When we say 'This flag (Muslim League's flag) is the flag of Islam' they think we are introducing religion into politics - a fact of which we are proud. Islam gives us a complete code. It is not only religion but it contains laws, philosophy and politics. In fact, it contains everything that matters to a man from morning to night. When we talk of Islam we take it as all embracing word. We do not mean any ill. The foundation of our Islamic code is that we stand for liberty, equality and fraternity.”
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Recorded in: Address to the Gaya Muslim League Conference (January 1938)
“I have always maintained that no nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
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Recorded in: Speech at Islamia College for women (25 March 1940)
“The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of historical achievements and traditions.”
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Recorded in: Speech (24 December 1940), published in Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah (1947), Vol. 1
“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the ‘Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”
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Recorded in: Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr (October 1941)
“You have performed wonders in the past. You are still capable of repeating the history. You are not lacking in the great qualities and virtues in comparison with the other nations. Only you have to be fully conscious of that fact and to act with courage, faith and unity.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarhn10 March 1944
“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but Muslims ideology which has to be preserved which has come to us a precious gift and treasure and which we hope, others will share with us.”
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Recorded in: Address to Frontier Muslim Students Federation 18 June 1945.
“You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your masjids or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State.”
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Recorded in: Presidential address to the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi (11 August 1947)
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.”
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Recorded in: Address in Lahore (15 August 1947)
“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.”
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Recorded in: Address to Civil, Naval, Military, and Air Force Officers of Pakistan Government, Karachi 11 October 1947.
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.”
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Recorded in: Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.
“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.”
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Recorded in: Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore 30 October 1947.
“The weak and the defenceless, in this imperfect world, invite aggression from others. The best way in which we can serve the cause of peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think that we are weak and, therefore, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dares entertain any aggressive designs against us.”
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Recorded in: Address at the time of launching ceremony of PNS 'Dilawar' on (23 January 1948)
“I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.”
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Recorded in: Address to Karachi Bar Association 25 January 1948.
“As you may be aware, the Government has been making genuine efforts to allay the fears and the suspicions of the minorities and if their (Hindu minority's) exodus from Sindh still continues, it is Not because they are not wanted here, but because they are more prone to listen to people across the border who are interested in pulling them out. I am sorry for those misguided people for nothing but disillusionment awaits them in their 'PROMISED LAND'.”
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Recorded in: Reply to an address of the Welcome Note presented by the Parsi Community of Sindh, Karachi (3 February 1948)
“Let me make it very clear to you, it is no doubt that the state language of Pakistan is going to be Urdu and no other language. Anyone who tries to mislead you is really the enemy of Pakistan. Without state language, no nation can remain tied up solidly together and function. Look at the history of every government judgement substitute language. Therefore, so far as the State language is concerned, Pakistan's state language shall be Urdu.”
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Recorded in: Address to a huge public rally in w:Dhaka, w:East Bengal (then the eastern wing of the w:Dominion of Pakistan and now the independent state of w:Bangladesh) (21 March 1948)
“I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam.”
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Recorded in: Address to Darbar in Sibi, Balochistan (14 February 1948), as quoted in South Asia Screening the life of Jinnah" in BBC News (13 September 1998)
“The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.”
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Recorded in: Broadcast to the people of Australia (19 February 1948)