Untouchability Quotes

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

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 reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

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

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.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably.

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.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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

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

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

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

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

The impact of the invaders from the north-west and of Islam on India had been considerable. It had pointed out and shone up the abuses that had crept into Hindu society - the petrification of caste, untouchability, exclusiveness carried to fantastic lengths.