...a call to fight communal passion

Acharya Kripalani

WHAT we have achieved is the freedom to make or mar our destiny. This is the highest privilege and highest responsibility. This privilege and responsibility shall be shared equally by all citizens of the Indian Union, to whatever religion, community or party they may belong. Let every citizen pledge himself today to bend all his energies to the building of a democratic society based on social justice... Today our enemy is not outside us but within us. Hunger, poverty and disease, our ignorance, prejudice and folly, and above all the spirit of violence and disorder let loose by communal passions, are our real enemies. Against these enemies we will have to marshall all our forces....