“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)
“We are broken open, or we willfully shed.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
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