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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability. -- Narendra Modi
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. -- 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
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community. -- 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
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
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
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
Untouchability is a terrible reality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability is an error of long standing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected. -- 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
If untouchability lives, humanity must die. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other. -- 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
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

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