Untouchability Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Temples, Entirety, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Hate Her, Collages

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Graves, Curse, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tragedy, Limits, Foundation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Penance, Hinduism, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Cutting, Passing By

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.163, Grove Press

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• Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Hinduism, Sanctions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.164, Grove Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Heart, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Modern

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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• I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Died

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Untouchables, True Man

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hinduism, Feels

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi (1932). “The Epic Fast”

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• If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bullets, Hinduism, Latter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Praying, Advent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

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• What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Satanic, Guilty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works: (1920:Nov.-1921:Apr.)”

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• Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eating, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

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• Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Sin, Virtue

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Campaigns, Bihar, Connections

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unity, Foundation, Removal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Body, Bihar

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• I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sin, Divine, Graves

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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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

  Long, Hinduism, Attainment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Stones, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “To the Perplexed”

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