Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

A Sudra [lowest caste untouchable], though emancipated by his master, is not released from servitude; since that is innate in him, who can set him free from it?

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.