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"[passionately wooing Lolita] If this could be - The high Sierras I would level to your feet - The wild waves on Capistrano's shore should pay you homage - I'd make the desert a million roses yield - - to die in shame before your beauty- If this could be!"
"I give you a safe rule, good landlady. Never do anything on an empty stomach - but eat!"
"Justice for all! Punishment for the oppressors of the helpless - from the governor down."
"Oh, such lips! Turn not away. Your face is heaven - all else is blackness!"
"You idlers! You wasters! You fashion-plates! You sit and sip your wine while the naked back of an unprotesting soldier of Christ is lashed with the whip!"
"The heaven-kissed hills of your native California swarm with the sentinels of oppression! Are your pulses dead? Thank God, mine is not - and I pledge you my blood's as noble as the best!"
"No force that tyranny could bring would dare oppose us - once united. Our country's out of joint. It is for us caballeros, and us alone, to set it right!"
"It's a good thing for that carver of Z's that he keeps out of reach of my sword. I'll carve Gonzales all over his body."
"Title Card: Oppression - by its very nature - creates the power that crushes it. A champion arises - a champion of the oppressed - whether it be a Cromwell or someone unrecorded, he will be there. He is born."
"Title Card: Out of the mystery of the unknown - appeared a masked rider who rode up and down the great highway.."
"Soldier: This Zorro comes upon you like a graveyard ghost and like a ghost he disappears."
"Douglas Fairbanks - Don Diego Vega/Señor Zorro"
"Marguerite De La Motte - Lolita Pulido"
"Noah Beery, Sr. - Sergeant Pedro Gonzales"
"Charles Hill Mailes - Don Carlos Pulido"
"Claire McDowell - Doña Catalina Pulido"
"Robert McKim - Captain Juan Ramon"
"George Periolat - Governor Alvarado"
"Walt Whitman - Father Felipe"
"Sidney De Gray - Don Alejandro Vega"
"Tote Du Crow - Bernardo, Don Diego's mute servant"
"Noah Beery, Jr. - Boy"
"Charles Stevens - Peon beaten by Sergeant Gonzales"
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.