The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

by Ravish Kumar

If your life is clean and uncorrupted your voice will have the ring of truth.

Because they are not warnings to speak carefully, but warnings to not speak at all.

I now understand that it was the act of becoming limber and strong which had vanquished the fear.

Why didn’t you speak then?—this is a design by which a sense of guilt is created within that person who asks questions.

He who is in the dominating position of power decides the rules of morality.

Stick to ethics at all times. Keep your life clean and uncluttered. And keep speaking out.

anchor who doesn’t have the time to read two newspapers a day or a single book in an entire year but becomes a historian by night, destroying your mind on a daily basis.

history has scripted the present of the likes of them a long time ago.

Respect him, but don’t be so hypnotized by his words that you forget to evaluate his work and hold him to the promises he makes.

Your mandate was for social and economic well-being.

The task of demanding answers, with impartiality and without prejudice, is yours, and overrides any obligation to an organization.

There is a lot that we don’t question, a lot that we just don’t see.

faith should rest on the foundation of facts, not emotions.

Escape is the only space for love in India.

Above all, it must be realized that it is the right to question, the right to scrutinize and the right to dissent which enables an informed citizenry to scrutinize the actions of government.

Life and freedom have not been bestowed on us by the Constitution, they have always existed; the Constitution only protects them.

There will always be some room for betterment but it is the effort towards that betterment which makes the people of India, Indians.

Instead of asking what has been achieved, we must start asking what we can achieve.

How can he who is generous and broad-minded ever talk about hatred and deliver threats of violence?