#WhatTheFAQ: Educate, agitate, organise are holy words for Ambedkarites.

Mrittika Banerjee

First used:

All India Depressed Classes Conference, Nagpur

July 20, 1942

Dr BR Ambedkar:

"My final words of advice to you is educate, agitate and organise, have faith in yourselves and never lose hope"

July 20, 1942

What does the slogan mean:

Educate: Intellectual power; Agitate: Mental agitation; Organise: Collective resistance

Used in variations these days

Slogan origin:

First used in the pamphlet: Socialism Made Plain, the Social and Political Manifesto of the Democratic Federation

United Kingdom, 1883