13 Conscience Shaking Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Quotes

On April 13, 1919, The horrible massacre committed by the British Raj in Jallianwala Bagh shook the conscience of the people of colonial India. And these quotes of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre tell us a lot about that heinous mentality that killed innocent men and children for no reason. 

In fact, for further reading about this soul-shaking incident, you can also read my article from here-Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, The Real Story

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Quotes

1. There is no doubt that history belongs primarily to the victor, but only as long as we allow it. The truth cannot remain hidden for all time. It will appear sooner than later.

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Quote and also about history

 

2. For Dyer, this was not a murderous attack on defenceless, innocent people. For him the people assembled were all guilty; it was a state of war, in which he wanted to teach them a moral lesson.

Lines about Jallianwala Bagh massacre and Dyer

 

3. It wasn’t just bullet wounds that killed people, many died when they were crushed in the stampede or when they fell into the well, and the wounds were not caused only by bullets.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre quote and how people got killed

 

4. Jallianwala Bagh massacre and other brutalities were often supported and perpetuated by Indian collaborators, who were generously rewarded.

Quote about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

 

5. Once you are entitled to have regard neither to the intentions nor to the conduct of a particular gathering, and to shoot and go on shooting with all the horrors that were involved, in order to teach somebody else a lesson, you are embarking on terrorism, to which there is no end.

Quote about oppression and suppression

 

6. Jallianwala Bagh massacre is one of the few examples of racial terrorism.

Quote about Jallianwala Bagh massacre and racial discrimination

 

7. Jallianwala Bagh massacre is a living epitome of the ‘benevolent despotism’ of the British Empire.

Lines about Jallianwala Bagh and British Empire

 

8. The atrocities perpetuated at Amritsar have proved that imperialism run mad is more dangerous, more vindictive, more inhuman, than a frenzied uncontrollable mob.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre quote

 

9. In Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Jews had to wear a star to distinguish them from the rest. In colonial India, the colour of the skin was enough.

Quote about Hitler's Nazi Germany, Jews and racism

 

10. The blood soaked soil of Jallianwala Bagh became a rallying cry for Indian freedom fighters to fight tooth and nail against the British imperialism.

Inspirational lines about the Indian freedom fighters

 

11. The uncountable number of bullets that killed innocent Indians in Jallianwala Bagh, proved to be nails in the coffin of the British Empire.

A soul shaking quote about Jallianwala Bagh incident

 

12. Jallianwala Bagh is a sacred place where Indians remember the sacrifices of those people who died for them so that they could breathe in an independent country.

Importance of Jallianwala Bagh for Indians

 

13. We do not want to punish Dyer. We have no desire for revenge. We want to change the system that produced Dyer.

About Gen Dyer and the Indian system

 

I hope you like these quotes of Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Thanks for reading. Jai Hind.

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Yash Sharma

Namaste reader, My name is Yash, and books for me are like a medicine, which removes my ignorance and also helps me in behaving more like a human.Though I live in the world’s largest democracy, India, but when I look around, I realized that this democratic nation of mine has turned into a kind of feudal oligarchy or kleptocracy, where people from a particular community or I would say particular surname has hijacked this democracy, and the political parties in India has turned itself into a kind of family enterprises where the family members are the only shareholders. And I want to change this, and books are a weapon which is helping me, so that I can help others and my nation.Shukriya for reading this Thought of mine.

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