“Along with independence of India from the colonial rule, physical and mental development of masses is necessary for rebuilding the nation”
Above three quotes in Bharat Ratna Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 10 December 2013, Global Politician http://www.globalpolitician.com/default.asp?26949-india-bc-roy-independence,
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Source: The August Revolution (1946) (excerpts), p.42

“Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy,”
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/aug/09/supply-navy-estimates in the House of Commons (9 August 1848).
1840s
Context: The hon. Gentleman has said, in a most extraordinary manner, that our security for peace at the present day is the desire of nations to keep at home. There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy, and you have at this moment the principle of race— not at all of nationality— adopted by Germany, the very country to which the hon. Member for the West Riding referred.

As quoted in "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, in The Wall Street Journal (23 June 2005)

Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
Context: A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

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Message to the Tricontinental (1967)