“I do not know whether you draw a distinction between principles and rules. But I do... Rules are practical; they are habitual ways of doing things according to prescription. But principles are intellectual; they are useful methods of judging things...… — 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, indeed, one of the salient features of Islam that it immobilizes in their native barbarism, the races whom it enslaves. It is fixed in a crystallization, inert and impenetrable. It is unchangeable; and political, social or… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest chain that humanity has ever borne… Islam has its beauties as a religion;… But to the human reason Islamism has only been injurious. The minds that it has shut from the light were, no doubt, already closed in… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share
“If Islam and Hinduism keep Muslims and Hindus apart in the matter of their faith, they also prevent their social assimilation. That Hinduism prohibits intermarriage between Hindus and Muslims is quite well known. This narrow-mindedness is not the vice of Hinduism only. Islam is equally narrow in its social code. It also prohibits intermarriage between Muslims and Hindus. With these… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share
“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 Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions must be sought from the Smritis, and if the Smritis fail to provide any such instructions, he must follow in the footsteps of the great men.… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that one may live worthily one must first live. How then can a life of culture be made possible? It is not possible unless there is sufficient leisure. For it is only when there is leisure that a person… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share
“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
