Quotes About Untouchables

#1. Brother. But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute

George Orwell

#2. blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.

Greg Iles

#3. Namaste is a term that finds its origin in India means the God in me salutes the God in you. This means that every human being has a God in her or him. I wonder where in time we forgot this wisdom and started treating fellow human beings as untouchables and backward classes.

Jeroninio Almeida

#4. I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

Shashi Tharoor

#6. Some of the drops of water fell onto my skin and by impulse was to smell the water. It stank. My neighbour whispered in my ear, "It's cow's urine and gobar. They use it for purification." We, the untouchables, were purified with bullshit.

Anand Neelakantan

#7. While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables ) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#8. Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#9. god has shown me that conducting our lives to look like "The Untouchables" --looking like we have it all together, like we are perfect--does not leave straight path for others to follow.

Juanita Bynum

#10. The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn't as big as his! I don't know what it is with guns, but once you've got your hand on one, you think you're one of the untouchables.

Stephen Richards

#12. You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Sean Connery

#13. God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

B.R. Ambedkar

#15. The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

B.R. Ambedkar

#16. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

Tamora Pierce

#17. Motherfucker," he groaned. "No Gamble, and I'm stuck in a class with not one, or even two, but three untouchables. This is going to suck ... ass.

Linda Kage

#18. Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. I'm looking for you
into that silver
spoon where I taste my reflection
to feel the touch of your untouchables
- from the poem Looking For You

Munia Khan

#20. The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city. Every

Manu Joseph

#21. How stupid would that sound? It was high school, not the Hindu cast system, where the Untouchables have to avoid 'polluting' the upper classes.

Marni Bates

#22. 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

#23. Put your hands on me Destiny. I've dreamed about it long enough.

Cindy Skaggs

#24. If I known it would be like this, I would have taken you sooner.

Cindy Skaggs

#25. A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Rush Limbaugh

#27. He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.

Rohinton Mistry

#28. You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

Edouard Boubat

#29. Some people, when there's a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say 'these are my things, nobody else can touch them.'

Benjamin R. Smith

#30. Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

Eliot Ness

#31. Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

Rakim