Top 41 Quotes About Untouchability
#1. They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#2. To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. 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
#4. Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. 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
#7. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Without any reason or basis, untouchability has been created as a result of caste. It is foolish to think of abolishing untouchability, in the face of the continuance of caste.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#19. Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. 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
#22. Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. 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
#30. Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. 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
#35. We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.
Narendra Modi
#36. The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in society; it compels him to live in dungeons and seclusion; it prevents him from educating himself and following a profession of his choice.
B.R. Ambedkar
#39. When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Mahatma Gandhi
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