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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
Sep 24, 2025
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Untouchability is a terrible reality.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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.
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, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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.
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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