This speech is taking from the film, ‘Ghandi’, and I havent’ been able to find it’s original version, so it is quite possibly just a re-working of some of Ghandi’s speeches, meshed together, or creatively written purely for cinematic effect. I don’t know to be honest, but whatever the case, it was a BRILLIANT speech, and reminds me of modern-day Pakistan, and the political tug-of-war game it is presently host too.
“I already know that what we see here means nothing to the masses of our country. Here we make speeches for each other and those english liberal magazines that may grant us a few lines. But the people of India are untouched. Their politics are confined to bread and salt. Illiterate they may be but they are not blind; they see no reason to give their loyalty to rich and powerful men who simply want to take over the role of the British, in the name of freedom. This congress tells the world it representsIndia. My brothers, India is 700,000 villages, not just a few lawyers in Delhi and Bombay. Until we stand in the fields with the millions who toil each day under the hot sun, we will not represent India, nor will we be able to challenge the British as one nation.”
