A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Neal A. Maxwell

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Yves Behar

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