1.
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
Mahatma Gandhi
If segregation exists, humanity will perish.
2.
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
'The prevalence of caste-based discrimination must be abolished for Hinduism to survive, and the survival of Hinduism depends on eliminating such prejudice.'
3.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
4.
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
5.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Mahatma Gandhi
6.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Mahatma Gandhi
7.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
9.
The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
Mahatma Gandhi
11.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Mahatma Gandhi
12.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Mahatma Gandhi
14.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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.
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
17.
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Mahatma Gandhi
18.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
Mahatma Gandhi
19.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
Mahatma Gandhi
20.
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
Mahatma Gandhi
21.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
Mahatma Gandhi
22.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi