A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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 untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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.
But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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