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"[after his case is dismissed, and the guards try to escort him out] I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door."
"[outside the courtroom] I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on. In the name of my father and of the truth!"
"[after hearing of Gerry's father's death] Well, I think they ought to take the word 'compassion' out of the English dictionary."
"[to Robert Dixon at the appeal] Well then, would you be so kind as to read the statement that you took from him on the third of November 1974? A statement, Milord, which vindicates these people, all these innocent people. Someone, either that man, or his superior, or his superior's superior, ordered that these people be used as scapegoats by a nation that was baying for blood in return for the innocent blood spilled on the streets of Guildford! And by God, you've got your blood, Mr Dixon! You've got the blood of Giuseppe Conlon, you've got the lifeblood of Carole Richardson and you've got fifteen years of blood and sweat and pain from my client, whose only crime was he was bloody well Irish, and he was foolish and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time!"
"Milord, this alibi for Gerry Conlon was taken by Mr Dixon one month after Gerry Conlon was arrested. This note was attached to it when I found it in police files. It reads "Not to be Shown to The Defence". [she holds up the note, to gasps of disbelief from the gallery] I have one question to ask you, Mr Dixon. Why was the alibi for Gerry Conlon, who was charged with the murder of five innocent people...kept from the defence?"
"Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father's name."
"In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love."
"Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon"
"Pete Postlethwaite - Giuseppe Conlon"
"John Lynch - Paul Hill"
"Mark Sheppard - Paddy Armstrong"
"Beatie Edney - Carole Richardson"
"Emma Thompson - Gareth Peirce"
"Anthony Brophy - Danny"
"Don Baker - Joe McAndrew"
"Corin Redgrave - Inspector Robert Dixon"
"Gerard McSorley - Detective Pavis"
"Frank Harper - Ronnie Smalls"
"Jamie Harris - Deptford Jim"
"Tom Wilkinson - Grant Richardson"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.