1st sentence of Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar, forwarded by Arundhati Roy

'Annihilation of Caste' is the nearly eighty-year-old text of a speech that was never delivered. - Arundhati Roy

Friends, I am really sorry for the members of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal who have so very kindly invited me to preside over this conference. - BR Ambedkar 

1st sentence of Crises of the Republic by Hannah Arendt

'The Pentagon Papers - as the forty-seven-volume "History of US Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy" (commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in June 1967 and completed a year and a half later) has become known ever since the New York Times published, in June 1971, this top-secret, richly documented record of the American role in Indochina from World War II to May 1968 - tell different stories, teach different lessons to different readers. 

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

With justice on our side, I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy… For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of the human personality.

— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, All-India Depressed Classes Conference, 1942