Untouchability Quotes

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

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

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

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

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

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.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

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

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

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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