Shaheed Bhagat Singh's 109th birth anniversary: Inspiring quotes, sayings by the legendary freedom fighter

28th Sep 2016

Let’s bow to the courageous Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary. He has left an indelible mark on India's history through his bravery.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh is an icon who continues to inspire the young, and the young at heart even in the post-modern world of the Internet and funky gadgets.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh, an influential figure of India's independence movement was born to a Punjabi Sikh family in 1907. Singh founded the Indian Nationalist Youth Organisation (Naujawan Bharat Sabha) in March 1926, and assassinated a British police officer named John Saunders in 1927 along with Indian revolutionary Shivaram Rajguru to seek revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai.

Singh was sentenced to death 11 hours before the ordered time in the Lahore conspiracy case on March 23, 1931. It is believed that the magistrate was not present at the time to supervise the hanging.

Very few people know that he wrote for and edited Urdu and Punjabi newspapers, published from Amritsar, as well as contributing to low-priced pamphlets published by the Naujawan Bharat Sabha that excoriated the British. He also wrote briefly for the Veer Arjun newspaper, published in Delhi, and for Kirti, the journal of the Kirti Kisan Party ("Workers and Peasants Party").

The inspiring Quotes written by him are a learning experience for all of us:

 Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

 Life is lived on its own..others help is needed in funerals only.

 May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country

 Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

 It is beyond the power of any man to make a revolution. Neither can it be brought about on any appointed date. It is brought about by special environments, social and economic. The function of an organised party is to utilise any such opportunity offered by these circumstances.

 I emphasise that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

 Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.

 The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas - Bhagat Singh in court during his trial for India's freedom struggle.

 Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

 Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat. I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail. - Jail Note Book of Bhagat Singh (1929)

 Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

 The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

The most famous Poem written by Bismil Azimabadi "Sarfrosh Ki Tamanna" is also associated with the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh.

Bhagat Singh is still seen as the role model by a large number of young people in India. His sense of sacrifice, patriotism and courage are something that will be revered and looked upon by generations to come.