Barath

“By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, and if I could secure it at the hands of the English, I should bow down my head to them. If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

“The saints have never according to my study carried on a campaign against. Caste and Untouchability. They were not concerned with the struggle between men. They were concerned with the relation between man and God. They did not preach that all men were equal. They preached that all men were equal, in the eyes of God a very different and a very innocuous proposition which nobody can find difficult to preach or dangerous to believe in.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste: With a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi

“This discontent is a very useful thing. As long as a man is contented with his present lot, so long is it difficult to persuade him to come out of it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

“The human tendency to evaluate one’s well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana’s distress.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Difficulty of Being Good