Абдул Гаффар-хан цитаты
Абдул Гаффар-хан
Дата рождения: 6. Февраль 1890
Дата смерти: 20. Январь 1988
Хан Абдул Гаффар, Бадшах Хан, Бача Хан — политический и духовный лидер пуштунов, соратник и последователь Махатмы Ганди, призывавший к ненасильственному сопротивлению британским колонизаторам; основатель первой в мире профессиональной ненасильственной армии.
Цитаты Абдул Гаффар-хан
„In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’.“
Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia
Источник: p 245 (writing in reference to Dr. Khan Sahibs support for the One Unit.
„Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.“
As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/controversy/doc2.html without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3736889569
Famous speeches
„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.“
Quoted from the Progressive February 2002
„“It is my inmost conviction,” Badshah Khan said, “that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat” – selfless service, faith, and love.“
Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).
„Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.“
Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, A Man to Match his Mountains: Bacha Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press, Petaluma, 1984), p. 25.
„Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.“
Zareef, Adil Saturday, (January 28, 2006) The Demise of a Dream. The Daily Times https://archive.is/20130416144347/www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C28%5Cstory_28-1-2006_pg7_35