Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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.
Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.