“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Pakistan is merely another manifestation of a cultural unit demanding freedom for the growth of its own distinctive culture.” — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The Musalman, remaining faithful to his religion, has not progressed; he has remained stationary in a world of swiftly moving modern forces. It is,… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest chain that… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“If Islam and Hinduism keep Muslims and Hindus apart in the matter of their faith, they also prevent their social assimilation. That Hinduism prohibits… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu” — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that one may… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The Hindus accuse the Muslims of contumacy. The Muslims accuse Hindus of meanness. Both, however, forget that the communal problem exists not because the… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“But once a missionary religion, Hinduism perforce ceased to be a missionary religion after the time when the Hindu society developed its system of… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The physical and intellectual effects of purdah are nothing as compared with its effects on morals. The origin of purdah lies of course in… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image