Francisco Luís Gomes - India Quotes

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Cholera and the Thug were born in the same country and in the same year. India is their native land.

Francisco Luís Gomes

To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.

Francisco Luís Gomes

I was born in the East Indies, once the cradle of poetry, philosophy and history and now their tomb. I belong to that race which composed the Mahabharata and invented chess. But this nation which made codes of it's poems and formulated politics in a game is no longer alive! It survives imprisoned in it's own country. I asked for India liberty and light; as for myself, more happy than my countrymen, i am free - civis sum.

Francisco Luís Gomes

Portugal converted a portion of India to the Catholic religion with the arms of her soldiers, with the blood of her martyrs, with the miracles of her saints, and with the fires of her Inquisition. Those who were vanquished in this struggle became Christians and Portuguese. England might imitate the example, except as regards force.

Francisco Luís Gomes

All impartial men who are moved by justice and not by racialism want India to be ruled by Indians.

Francisco Luís Gomes