- [address to India on the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi] Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it.
- [Aug. 16, 1947, on the eve of India's independence from Great Britain] At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
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