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"You're not only in the Army, you're women, and you're Negros. And because you're Negros and women you don't have the luxury to be as good as the white soldiers, you have the burden to be better. Remember, you're not only representing America, you're representing the Negros of America."
"They're already of the opinion that the Negro woman is dumb, inferior and lazy. And I'll be damned it I allow a woman in my unit to prove them correct!"
"Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams"
"Ebony Obsidian as Lena Derriecott Bell King"
"Dean Norris as General Halt"
"Sam Waterston as Franklin Roosevelt"
"Oprah Winfrey as Mary McLeod Bethune"
"Susan Sarandon as Eleanor Roosevelt"
"Milauna Jackson as Captain Noel Campbell"
"Kylie Jefferson as Bernice Baker"
"Shanice Shantay as Johnnie Mae Burton"
"Sarah Jeffery as Dolores Washington"
"Pepi Sonuga as Elaine White"
"Sarah Helbringer as Mary Kathryn"
"Jay Reeves as Private Hugh Bell"
"Jeanté Godlock as Vera Scott"
"Moriah Brown as Inez Bright"
"Gregg Sulkin as Abram David"
"Donna Biscoe as Emma Derriecott"
"Baadja-Lyne Odums as Susie"
"Jeffery Thomas Johnson as Colonel Davenport"
"Nick Harris as Chaplain Clemens"
"Austin Nichols as Collins"
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.