Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

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

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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

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.

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

Discrimination will impair democracy.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

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

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

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

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.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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

Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

There is no caste in blood.

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.

Even though the founders were aggressive in pursuing liberty, their quest for equality failed to include all.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.

I feel that, in India, we have films that have tackled various issues over the years, but perhaps one of the issues that we've tackled less is the issue of caste-ism. That's an issue we've more or less stayed away from... although we touched on it briefly in some films like 'Lagaan.'

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.