Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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.

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

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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

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

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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.

A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. the history of the capsulize era is characterized by the degradation of my people: despoiled of their lands, their true culture destroyed...denied equal protection of the law, and deprived their rightful place in the respect of their fellows.

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.