"India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before."
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"That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it."
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"The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country."
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"There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at."
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"A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women."
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"To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj."
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"My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper."
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"My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else."
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"Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!"
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"People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!"
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"I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that languages have different characteristics and that influences in some ways how different groups behave, and I suppose it might in whales."
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"Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia."
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"Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought."
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"I love theater. I also love radio. I love language."
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"Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable."
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"My homeland is the portuguese language."
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"I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself."
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"The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language."
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"I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare."
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"Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film."
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