B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
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Burn Constitution Government Misuse Politics
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent.
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Disconnection Revolution Success
Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.
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Courage Deep Goat Lion Offer Sacrifice Weak
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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Authority Control Liberty Man Power Property Religion Social
Self-respect is the most vital factor in life.
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Factor Life One Liner Self Respect Vital
Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
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Freedom Mind One Liner Real
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.
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Democracy Politics Social
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.
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Appeal Gain Rights Struggle
The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.
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Born Majority Member Politics
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.
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Attitude Democracy Essential Fellow Government Respect
Religion is for man and not man for religion.
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Human Right Man Religion
To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties.
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Difficult Hard Time Overcome Self Respect Worth
Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
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Slave Subject
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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Die Human Ideas Mortal Plant Water
Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.
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Existence Freedom Mind One Liner Positive Proof
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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Administration Body Law Medicine Politics Sick
Learn to live in this world with self-respect.
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Learning Live One Liner Self Respect World
The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
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Atmosphere Creation Development Ideas Individual Religion Spiritual
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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Compassion Creation Dissolve Reverence Sense Society
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
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Country One Liner Patriotism
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
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Civilization Humanity Religion Slave
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
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Compensation Equality Ideas Justice Liberty Proportion
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Aim Cultivate Existence Human Humanity Mind Slave Ultimate
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Country Modern Religion Scriptire Unite
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.
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Chain Freedom Man Mind Person Slave
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict.
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Conflict Economic Ethics History Show
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.
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Comparison Courage Defy Government Politics Reform Social Society

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