For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.