Do you realise that India is the only country that never went outside of itself to conquer? The great emperor Asoka insisted that none of his descendants should go to conquer.
If people want to send us teachers, let them help, but not injure.
Why should all these people come to conquer the Hindus?
Did they do any injury to any nation? What little good they could do, they did for the world. They taught it science, philosophy, religion, and civilised the savage hordes of the earth.
And this is the return -- only murder and tyranny, and calling them heathen rascals. Look at the books written on India by Western people and at the stories of many travellers who go there; in retaliation for what injuries are these hurled at them?
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
If people want to send us teachers, let them help, but not injure.
Why should all these people come to conquer the Hindus?
Did they do any injury to any nation? What little good they could do, they did for the world. They taught it science, philosophy, religion, and civilised the savage hordes of the earth.
And this is the return -- only murder and tyranny, and calling them heathen rascals. Look at the books written on India by Western people and at the stories of many travellers who go there; in retaliation for what injuries are these hurled at them?
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
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