I AM NO POLITICIAN OR POLITICAL AGITATOR. I CARE ONLY FOR THE SPIRIT

. . . One thing I find in the books of my speeches and sayings published in Calcutta. Some of them are printed in such a way as to savour of political views; whereas I am no politician or political agitator. I care only for the Spirit — when that is right everything will be righted by itself.... So you must warn the Calcutta people that no political significance be ever attached falsely to any of my writings or sayings.

- Swami Vivekananda
U. S. A. 27th September, 1894.