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"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
"Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer."
"I say, I say, God is dead!"
"Show honor now, show them a stony heart and sink them with it!"
"Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God's icy wind will blow."
"We will not meet again, Abigail, in this World or the next."
"I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned."
"[to Thomas Danforth] Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Do you think yourself so mighty the Devil may not turn your wits?"
"Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor"
"Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams"
"Paul Scofield as Judge Thomas Danforth"
"Joan Allen as Elizabeth Proctor"
"Bruce Davison as Reverend Samuel Parris"
"Rob Campbell as Reverend John Hale"
"Jeffrey Jones as Thomas Putnam"
"Peter Vaughan as Giles Corey"
"Karron Graves as Mary Warren"
"Charlayne Woodard as Tituba"
"Kali Rocha as Mercy Lewis"
"Rachael Bella as Betty Parris"
"Frances Conroy as Ann Putnam"
"Ashley Peldon as Ruth Putnam"
"Elizabeth Lawrence as Rebecca Nurse"
"Tom McDermott as Francis Nurse"
"George Gaynes as Judge Samuel Sewall"
"Mary Pat Gleason as Martha Corey"
"Robert Breuler as Judge John Hathorne"
"Michael Gaston as Marshal George Herrick"
"Ruth Maleczech as Goody Osbourne"
"Sheila Pinkham as Sarah "Goody" Good"
"William Preston as George Jacobs, Sr."
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.