Top 3198 Quotes & Sayings by Mahatma Gandhi - Page 54

There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

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.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

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

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

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.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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.

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

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

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.