WORDS THAT MADE HISTORY

There are WORDS that sum up a fleeting moment in history . Uttered at the right moment by famous persons, these words become timeless gems. Here are a few!

'PECCAVI'! This was a one word telegram sent to England by Gen. Charles Napiere when he annexed
the Sind province (now in Pakistan) to the English domains in India. In doing
this he had exceeded his brief that he would only quell the rebellion and
come back. PECCAVI, a Latin words, means ' I have sinned' and the PUN
was intended to convey, in one word, a moment of contrition and a
conquest !!

And what do we see here ! An absolutely naked man running down a busy city-road shouting 'EUREKA.!
EUREKA ! '( I have found it, I have found it !). He is on his way to the palace of king Heroin the second. The man is none other than the great ancient Greek scientist Archimedes and he has just 'accidentally' made a discovery while sitting naked in a bath tub trying to figure out the solution to a problem tormenting his king !The sheer serendipity of such simple discovery made him forget that he was stark naked !

Next we arrive in ancient city of Rome. The great Roman dictator Julius Cæser has just been stabbed in the recorded
history's most infamous act of betrayal. And you can feel the anguished dismay in the exclamation of Julius Cæser as he says "ET TU BRUTE !" (And you too Brutus !) as he looks back and collapses after being stabbed in the back by his most trusted friend Marcus Brutus and dies.
'ET TU BRUTE' has come to symbolise an act of betrayal of trust !

And, finally, in a fast forward, here is the clincher, the 'mother of all famous Words'! While addressing a mammoth
gathering of 2,50,000 civil rights supporters on august 28 1963 from the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC during the epoch-making 'March On Washington' rally, Martin Luther King jr.'s Impassioned and repeated exclamations 'I HAVE A DREAM' sent shock waves across the world, asking the world if there was any substance in the claim of a 'democracy' in USA when half its population of coloured people was
suffering from a state of denial, of unfulfilled dreams a hundred years after the emancipation of slaves in USA.In awarding him the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize the committee did an honour to itself. And by the time he was assassinated in 1969 the process of undoing injustice to 'coloured'
people was already in motion.

The words 'I HAVE A DREAM' have come to represent the aspirations of those who have been denied opportunity and seem to echo back whenever or wherever earthshaking injustice occurs- to a Yousafzai
Malala of Pakistan, to a Nirbhay of India or to anyone else anywhere else with a shattered dream for the future !!

It is the indictment of the human race for the neglect of the mute unpriviledged brethren. It is the indictment of religion for failing the prophets and above all it is the indictment of world's super-rich for their crass mentality !!