Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have bee…

Swami Vivekananda
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Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not. ✨ Swami Vivekananda (2015). The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers
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