Source: India: A Wounded Civilization
Untouchability Quotes
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Untouchability Quotes
Source: The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
“The moment you clasp an infant to your heart, you realize that nobody is born into a caste.”
Source: Gora
“The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”
Source: Collected Works
“Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.”
Source: Collected Works
“Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.”
Source: Collected Works
“Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.”
Source: The Epic Fast
Source: None High: None Low
“The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.”
“The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.”
Source: Collected Works
“Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.”
Source: Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity
“To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: To the Perplexed
Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: All Religions are True
Source: Hindu Dharma
“Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.”
Source: Collected Works
“Untouchability is an error of long standing.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“Untouchability is a terrible reality.”
Source: Collected Works
“I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability
“My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.”
Source: Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
“We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.”
Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
“Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.”
Source: Collected Works: (1920:Nov.-1921:Apr.)
“Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.”
Source: All Religions are True
“Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.”
Source: All Religions are True
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
“For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.”
Source: Collected Works
“The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.”
Source: Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability