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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Religion is for man and not man for religion.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Learn to live in this world with self-respect.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar
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