What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.