Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India
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“I would urge that just as democracy initially meant the right of man to defend himself, to have a sword, and then meant the right to write, and then meant the right to read — so, now, democracy means the right to have the scientific experience.”
Generation of Greatness (1957)
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