Gandhi Untouchability Quotes & Sayings

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is a terrible reality. — Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Untouchability is an error of long standing. — Mahatma Gandhi

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability. — Mahatma Gandhi

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. — Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected. — Mahatma Gandhi

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books. — Mahatma Gandhi

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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