Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.
Lal Bahadur ShastriRead
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the inherent dignity and rights of individuals, regardless of their background.
Lal Bahadur Shastri's quote encapsulates a profound belief in the intrinsic value of every person, highlighting that each individual possesses dignity that transcends race, color, or belief. It advocates for the universal right of individuals to pursue a life that is better in quality and richer in experiences, suggesting that such rights are fundamental to humanity.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about human rights.
Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
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