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"[to the historian] I am, beyond a doubt, the last of the old-timers. My name is Jack Crabb, and I am the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn . . . uh, uh . . . popularly known as Custer's Last Stand."
"There was no describing how I felt. An enemy had saved my life by the violent murder of one of my best friends. . . . The world was too ridiculous to even bother to live in."
"Today is a good day to die."
"There is an endless supply of white men, but there has always been a limited number of human beings."
"Invisible! I've never been invisible before!"
"Come out and fight! It is a good day to die! Thank you for making me a Human Being! Thank you for helpin' me to become a warrior! Thank you for my victories and for my defeats! Thank you for my vision, and the blindness in which I saw further! You make all things and direct them in their ways, O Grandfather. And now you have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. I am gonna die now, unless death wants to fight. And I ask you for the last time to grant me my old power to make things happen. Take care of my son here. See that he doesn't go crazy."
"You look like a mule-skinner."
"Nothing in this world is more surprising than the attack without mercy!"
"Ulysses S. Grant, a man of great glory, holds me on a pedestal and realizes his own flaws because of my greatness."
"A Custer decision impetuous? Grant called me impetuous, too, the drunkard, sitting there in the White House, calling me impetuous!"
"You and I are even at last. I paid you the life I owe you. And the next time we meet, I can kill you without becoming an evil person."
"Dustin Hoffman - Jack Crabb also known as "Little Big Man" and the "Soda Pop Kid""
"Faye Dunaway - Louise Pendrake"
"Chief Dan George - Old Lodge Skins"
"Martin Balsam - Allardyce T. Meriweather"
"Richard Mulligan - General George Armstrong Custer"
"Jeff Corey - Wild Bill Hickok"
"Carole Androsky as Caroline Crabb"
"Cal Bellini as Younger Bear"
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.