I am not saying that the message of the Swami [Vivekanada] was the final word in our nationalism… But it was tremendous – something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.

Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917. Source: Collected Works of Deshbandhu.