Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

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

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

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.

The idea of the nation [India] itself is incompatible with the institution of caste.

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

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.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

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

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.