Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. AMBEDKARIt is disgraceful to live at the cost of one’s self-respect.
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Self-respect is the most vital factor in life.
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Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
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Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.
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Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.
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A safe army is better than a safe border.
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To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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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.
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Religion is for man and not man for religion.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
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The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.
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The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.
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Victory is always with economics.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent.
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It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one’s self-respect.
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If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
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Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.
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Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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