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
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Untouchability is a terrible reality.
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.