“As we have already shed blood, we are ready to shed more blood!”
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Source: Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
“Fijians will never be recognized unless our blood is first shed.”
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“The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.”
Mahmud Tarzi (1865–1933) Afghan writer
An Afghan Intellect By Yama Atta & Hashmat Haidari http://www.afghanmagazine.com/articles/tarzi.html Link
“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 3, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Abdur Rab Nishtar (1899–1958) Pakistani politician
Source: Attributed by Gurbachan Singh Talib in Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947, p. 34 https://books.google.com/books?id=WScbAAAAIAAJ&q=Pakistan+can+only+be+achieved+through+shedding+blood+of+ourselves,+and+if+need+be,+and+if+opportunity+arose,+by+shedding+blood+of+others.+Muslims+are&dq=Pakistan+can+only+be+achieved+through+shedding+blood+of+ourselves,+and+if+need+be,+and+if+opportunity+arose,+by+shedding+blood+of+others.+Muslims+are&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidlJ3gj_vqAhUyHbkGHeBYCTcQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg, 1950, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Source: 1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)
Yusuf Qaradawi (1926) Egyptian imam
Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/94.htm May 2004. <br class="br">Diaglogue among religions with Jews
“It was not worth shedding so much blood for such a trifle!”
Louis de Potter (1786–1859) pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859)
Source: Belgium since the Revolution of 1830, Page 198. https://be1830.be/onewebmedia/Belgi%C3%AB_sedert_de_omwenteling_in_1830%20I.pdf Louis de Potter, who would have preferred Belgium to become a republic after the revolution of 1830, is disappointed when the National Congress opts for a hereditary monarchy instead.
“Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,
Of His Flesh the mystery sing;
Of the Blood, all price exceeding,
Shed by our immortal King.”
Pange, lingua, gloriosi
Corporis mysterium
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
Quem in mundi pretium
Fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit gentium.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Pange, Lingua (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi), stanza 1
Kelsang Gyatso (1931) Tibetan writer and lama
Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey (2001)