A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Hinduism Purification Question Removal Untouchability

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

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 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

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

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

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

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

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