Uncompromising Stand Quotes

Jinnah had whipped up his followers to violence so that Muslims were attacking Sikh and Hindu neighborhoods, burning them and murdering many occupants in different parts of India to intimidate the Indian Governmental Ruling Congress Party, The British Colonial Indian officials and the politicians in London to create a Muslim state—Pakistan—with all the territory that they demanded. Many Muslims were in turn killed in retaliatory attacks. The American diplomats and most English politicians tried to persuade Jinnah to compromise on the division of land and resources. Jinnah saw no reason at the time for compromise. However the internecine violence became so brutal and extensive that even Jinnah was shocked. The British would not be intimidated nor would the Indian Congress party and Jinnah was forced to compromise. Even with that, there were over 2 million Indians killed by the time the partition was complete. Jinnah and most other leaders were not willing to die themselves, but they were able to convince enough of their coreligionists to die.

Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in human history with over 2 million casualties, many produced by Hitler’s order. The Germans were bogged down, could not take Stalingrad, the Russian Winter was closing in on them, the Germans were not equipped or dressed for the winter, and the Luftwaffe had not been able to resupply the armies who were out of food and ammunition. Paulus requested permission to surrender the army and received this response. Shortly thereafter, he disobeyed orders and surrendered what remained of the German forces who by that time were in terrible shape. Professional military men have criticized the Field Marshall for not having surrendered much earlier and saved so many of his men.

Since Pope Francis was so modern in so many areas there were hopes among some Roman Catholic reformers that the Pope would change the age old, discriminatry prohibition against women being priests.

Burdick, at age 80, was running for reelection to the Senate. His opponent ran ads asking him to retire and "come home:"

Indeed it did.

To orthodox Hindus the cow is a sacred animal and is not to be killed. The term has come into political use to mean a practice, or law that has been in existence a long time and is deeply respected and favored by some part of the population where any reform, change or improvement would have a political cost associated with it. Sacred cows are generally not to be even questioned. In orthodox Judaism, there is a sacred red heifer cow and the term may also have come from that.

We was asked to recant his “heretical” ideas and he would be freed. He was finally freed without recanting and when he established Pennsylvania there was freedom of conscience for all, not even common then in the American Colonies.