" Remember that the nation lives in the cottage. But, alas! nobody ever did anything for them. Can you raise them? Can you give them back their lost individuality without making them lose their innate spiritual nature? Can you become an occidental of occidentals in your spirit of equality, freedom, work, and energy, and at the same time a Hindu to the very backbone in religious culture and instincts? This is to be done and we will do it. You are all born to do it. Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. Onward for ever! Sympathy for the poor, the downtrodden, even unto death — this is our motto. Onward, brave lads! "
- Swami Vivekananda
C/O George W. Hale Esq., 541 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 24th January, 1894.
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