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.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.