Top 42 Untouchability Quotes & Sayings

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

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.

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

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

The Left Front, being an egalitarian political force, has always supported removing untouchability and discrimination in society.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

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.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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

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

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

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

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

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

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

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

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

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

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

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

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

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

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Any party interested in development of country can come with us, as we never believed in political untouchability.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

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.

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

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.

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.