A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Caste Hinduism Hindus Owe Penance Remove Themselves Untouchability

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

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

B. R. Ambedkar

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

B. R. Ambedkar

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

B. R. Ambedkar

I think that in the diaspora, and among immigrants, religion becomes a vehicle for the transmission of cultural information, and cultural codes, and this does end up re-inscribing certain things about the religion - like caste. Caste discrimination and hierarchy are still a very fundamental and violent part of Hinduism. My family was upper caste, and that was very clear. I feel like caste and religious practice are inextricable, actually.

Chitra Ganesh

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

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

B. R. Ambedkar

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

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

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