Shakti Charan

“On the other hand, every Hindu is taught to believe that his civilisation is not only the most ancient but that it is also in many respects altogether unique.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables ?

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Nationality is a social feeling. It is a feeling of a corporate sentiment of oneness which makes those who are charged with it feel that they are kith and kin. This national feeling is a double edged feeling. It is at once a feeling of fellowship for one’s own kith and kin and an anti-fellowship feeling for those who are not one’s own kith and kin. It is a feeling of “consciousness of kind” which on the one hand binds together those who have it, so strongly that it over-rides all differences arising out of economic conflicts or social gradations and, on the other, severs them from those who are not of their kind. It is a longing not to belong to any other group. This is the essence of what is called a nationality and national feeling.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India

“These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation Of Caste