Letter, Writtings and Statements of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his Copatriots

Leaflet thrown in the Central Assembly Hall, New Delhi at the time of the
throwing voice bombs.
On the 8th April, 1929, the Viceroy's proclamation, enacting the two Bills, was
to be made, despite the fact that the majority of members were opposed to it,
and had rather rejected in earlier.
THE HINDUSTAN SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN ARMY
(NOTICE)
"It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, with these immortal words uttered
on a similar occasion by Valiant, a French anarchist martyr, do we strongly
justify this action of ours."
"Without repeating the humiliating history of the past ten years of the working
of the reforms (Montague-Chelmsford Reforms) and without mentioning the
insults hurled at the Indian nation through this House-the so-called Indian
Parliament-we want to point out that, while the people expecting some more
crumbs of reforms from the Simon Commission, and are ever quarrelling over
the distribution of the expected bones, the Government is thrusting upon us
new repressive measures like the Public Safety and the Trade Disputes Bill,
while reserving the Press Sedition Bill for the next session. The indiscriminate
arrests of labour leaders working in the open field clearly indicate whither the
wind blows."
"In these extremely provocative circumstances, the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association, in all seriousness, realizing their full responsibility,
had decided and ordered its army to do this particular action, so that a stop be
put to this humiliating farce and to let the alien bureaucratic exploiters do what
they wish, but they must be made to come before the public eve in their naked
form."
"Let the representatives of the people return to their constituencies and prepare
the masses for the coming revolution, and let the Government know that while
protesting against the Public Safety and Trade Disputes Bills and the callous
murder of Lala Lajpat Rai, on behalf of the helpless Indian masses, we want to
emphasize the lesson often repeated by history, that it is easy to kill individuals
but you connot kill the ideas Great empires crumbled while the ideas survived.
Bourbons and Czars fell. While the revaluation marched ahead triumphantly."
"We are sorry to admit that we who attach so great a sanctity to human life,
who dream of a glorious future, when man will be enjoying perfect peace and
full liberty, have been forced to shed human blood. But the sacrifice of
individuals at the altar of the 'Great Revolution' that will bring freedom to all,
rendering the exploitation of man by man impossible, is inevitable."
"Long Live the Revolution."15
Sd/Balraj16
Commander-in-Chief

Gems Collected by Shaheed Bhagat Singh in Jail

Bhagat Singh, a great reader and thinker was able to break the jail conditions,
even when officially not allowed he was reading and writing but finally after
long hunger strike got the right of reading & writing included in Jail Manuals
Thus he maintained a note book of 404 pages and kept notes & quotes from the
books he read. Here are few of these:
"Ah my beloved, fill the cup that clears
Todays of past Regrets and future Fears
Tomorrow? _ why, Tomorrow I may be
Myself with yesterdays Sevn's thousand year."
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Here with a loaf Bread beneath the Bough
A flask of wine, a Book of verse-and thou
Beside me signing in the widerness
And wilderness in paradise now!
"Ummar Khayyam" Natural and Civil Rights
Man did not enter into society to become worse then he was before, but to have
those rights better secured. His netural rights are the foundation of all his civil
rights.
Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence
(intellectual mental etc.)
Civil rights are those that appertain to man in right of his being a member of
society.
Rights of Man-Thomas Paine
Morality
"Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means
of sustaining life and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the
cutting blasts of a winter night."
Right of labour
We consider it horrible that people should have their heads cut off, but we have
not been taught to see the horror of life - long death which is inflicted upon a
whole population by poverty and tyranny.
- Mark Twain
The Old labourer
".He (the old labourer out of employment) was struggling against age,
against nature, against circumstences, The entire weight of society, law and
order pressed upon him to force him to loose his self respect and liberty.. He
knocked at the doors of the farms and found good in man only - not in law and
order, but in individual man alone.
-Richerd Jefferies.

Free Thought
"If there is anything that cannot bear free thought, let it crack"
-Windell Phillips
One Against All
(Charles Fourier 1772-1837)
The present social order is a ridiculous mechanism, in which portion of the
whole are in conflict and acting against the whole are in conflict and acting
against the whole. We see each class in society desire, from interest, the
misfortune of the other classes, placing in every way individual interest in
opposition to public good. The lawyer wishes litigation and suits. Particularity
among the rich; the physician desires sickness (The leter would be ruined if
every body died without disease as would The former if all quarrels were
settled by arbitration) The soldier wants a war which will carry off half of his
burrials; monopolist and forestallers went famine, to double or treble the price
of grain; the architect, the carpenter, the mason want conflagration, That will
burn down a hundred houses to give activity to their branches of business.
Liberty
Not a grave for the murder'd for freedom, But grow seeds for freedom, in its
turn to bearseeds Which the wind carry a far and resow, and the rains and the
snows nourish. Not a disembodies spirit can the weapons of tyrant let loose
But it stalc invincible over the earth whispering counselling, cautioning.
-(Walt Whitmen)
Will of Revolutionary
" I also wish my friends to speak little or not at all about me, because idols are
created when men are praised and this is very bad for the future of the human
race..Acts alone, no metter by whom committed out to be studied, praised or
blamed. Let them be praised in order that they may be initiated when they seem
to contribute to the common weal; let them be ceusured when they are regarded
as injurious to the general well being, so that they may not be repeated."
"I desire that on no occasion, whether near or remote, nor for any reason
whatsoever, shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made
before my remains as I consider the time devoted to the dead would be better
employed in improving the conditions of the living, most of whom stand in
great need of this."
Will of Frenscisco Ferrer Spanish educator (1859-1909)
Glory of the Cause
Ah! Not for idle hatred, not
For honour, fame, nor self applause
But for the glory of the cause
You did, what will not be forgot
- (Arthur clough)
The mechine is social in nature, as the tool was individual

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"Give us worse cotton, but give us better men" say Emerson
"Deliver me those rickety perishing souls of infants, and let the cotton trade
take its chance."
The men cannot be sacrificed to the machine. The machine must serve
mankind, yet the danger to the human race lurks, menacing, in the industrial
region
- Poverty & Riches Scott Nearing
Man and Mankind
"I am a man and all that affects manking concerns me"
- (Page 43 of Jail notebook)
Aim of life
"The aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously, not
to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below, and
not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in-the
actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the
ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment democracy or universal
brotherhod can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity of
opportunity in the social, political and individual life." (Page 124 of Jail
notebook)