Sarojini Naidu: Greatness

Sarojini Naidu was Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Sarojini Naidu: 40 quotes4 likes

“It (Islam) was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for, in the mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: ‘God Alone is Great’… I have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes man instinctively a brother.”

Sarojini Naidu

[The Ideals of Islam, 13 February 2014, Madras, 1918, p. 167]

“A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh”

Sarojini Naidu

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

“Her work has a real beauty. Some of her lyrical work is likely, I think, to survive among the lasting things in English literature and by these, even if they are fine rather than great, she may take her rank among the immortals.”

Sarojini Naidu

Aurobindo said on her poetry quoted in Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English, p123/xxxx