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"Wir sind Brüder und Schwestern, denn wir haben alle dieselbe Mutter – Mutter Erde."
"Kinder, Jugendliche, Erwachsene … Respektiert alte Menschen, denn vergeßt nicht, daß ihr wie sie enden werdet."
"Kinder, die am verhungern sind, werden vom Beten nicht satt."
"Keine Revolution und kein Krieg kann uns retten, sondern nur ein neues Bewußtsein."
"Dein Benehmen sollte so laut sein, daß man deine Worte nicht mehr hören kann."
"Beneide nicht den Adler, weil er fliegen kann, er kann nicht schwimmen wie du."
"Man darf nicht die Demokratie zum Vorwand nehmen und ein Land angreifen. Die Menschenrechte kann man den Menschen gewiss nicht durch Bomben bringen. Es darf auch nicht sein, daß man den Kampf gegen eine Diktatur zum Vorwand nimmt, um die Ressourcen einer Nation zu rauben. Demokratie und Menschenrechte können nur mit dem und durch den Willen der Menschen verwirklicht werden, nicht dagegen."
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.