Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"If untouchability lives, humanity must die."
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Untouchability
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes."
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"When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other."
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"The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa."
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"Untouchability is a terrible reality."
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"The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness."
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"Untouchability is an error of long standing."
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"Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana."
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"We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability."
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"Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster."
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"To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves."
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"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."
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"A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable."
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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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"I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived."
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"Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals."
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"Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj."
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"So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility."
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