Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live."
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"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."
Ruth St. Denis
Dancer
"You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves."
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"Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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"I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings."
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"Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability."
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"Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans."
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"The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge."
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"The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini."
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"If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet."
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"Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence."
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"The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists."
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"The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism."
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"I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived."
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"Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere."
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"Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives."
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"Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector."
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"Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals."
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"One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth."
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"Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal."
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"It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient."
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"Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism."
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