“The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glari…”

“The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part, wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Title: Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore
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Context

Letter to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, renouncing his knighthood in protest of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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Tagore, Rabindranath. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

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