Mahatma Gandhi Untouchability Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

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

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