Untouchability Quotations

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

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

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

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

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

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.

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

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

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

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

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.