Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

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.

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

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

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.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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

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

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?

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

We have to eradicate caste.

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

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

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

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.