Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

He who would dare to undertake to establish a nation would have to feel himself capable of altering, so to speak, human nature, to transform each individual, who by his very nature is a unique and perfect whole, into a mere part of a greater whole, from which this individual would in a sense receive his life and his being.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian; I am an American.... All distinctions are thrown down; all America is one mass.

The constitutional principle of “one country, one nation” is so decisive as to reduce even our hundred and ten million Muslims, sixty million Akhoots, forty million Dravidians, seven million Christians, and six million Sikhs - to the position of mere sub-nations and satellites of the Indian nation, and thereby to disqualify each one of us from claiming the status of distinct sovereign nations in our own homelands.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle.

To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

I am proud to be an Indian.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.