Selected Quotes of Bal Gangadhar Tilak

• Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
• Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor the educational scheme will be useful to the nation…To make efforts for India’s freedom is more important than social reforms.
• If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.
• It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
• It is true that lack of rain causes famine but it is also true that the people of India have not the strength to fight the evil. The poverty of India is wholly due to the present rule. India is being bled till only the skeleton remains…all the vitality of the people is being sapped and we are left in an emaciated state of slavery.