Sarojini Naidu Quotes
Ambassador of Unity
In his younger days Jinnah was considered one of the greatest of the Indian Politicians in the Congress Party and all of India. Even though he was a Muslim, his leadership and political philosophy was appreciated by educated and politically active Indians of all faiths and casts. He was also so considered by the English Viceroy and his staff and noted by the politicians in England as a man who could bring Indians together without regard for religious or socio-economic status. He underwent a number of personal tragedies and changed radically until he was not only a sectarian Muslim leader but threatened and facilitated Islamic terrorism against all the other religions. Jinnah's flip flop on this point led to one of the great massacres and tragedies in human history" The Nightingale of India
Sarojini Naidu, 1879-1949, , Indian independence political activist and poetPresident of the Indian National Congress Party, Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Name given to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 1917
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She had gone to Europe where the 2nd World War was raging.
India had just recently gained its independence from Britain.
There were many who believed that a thriving growth economy depended in part on wartime military spending levels. The issue is still controversial.
Actually drafted by Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles
For over 50 years both the United States and Cuba had carried grudges about the Bay of Pigs, the boycott on purcuase of life saving medicine and U. S. attempts to assassiate Fidel Castro on the Cuban site, and the expropriation of Americans' Coban Prepoert, the poor record on human rights, the Mariel Boat Lift, and the harboring of American criminals for the United States. The policy positions held by the two nations had not produced anything constructive so the parties agreed to try and build closer ties. In just two years of a limited reproachment some progress had been made and Prices point about getting beyond the past tried to get all focussed on the future.
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule. Naidu's work as a poetess earned her the sobriquet 'the Nightingale of India', or 'Bharat Kokila' by Mahatma Gandhi because of colour, imagery and lyrical quality of her poetry.
