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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

My religious conversion is not...

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my religious conversion. Hinduism does not appeal to my conscience. My self-respect cannot assimilate Hinduism. In your case change of religion is imperative for worldly as well as spiritual ends. Do not care for the opinion of those who foolishly ridicule the idea of conversion for material ends. Why should you live under the fold of that religion which has deprived you of honor, money, food and shelter?

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Man is mortal. Everyone has to...

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Majorities are of two sorts: (...

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Life should be great rather th...

Life should be great rather than long.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world wi...

Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Law and religion are two force...

Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Law and order are the medicine...

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Justice has always evoked idea...

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value. If all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty... In short justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

It is disgraceful to live at t...

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by ...

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

In Hinduism, conscience, reaso...

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

If you ask me, my ideal would ...

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

If I find the constitution bei...

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a co...

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

I like the religion that teach...

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 48 quotes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

I feel that the constitution i...

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

History shows that where ethic...

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

History bears out the proposit...

History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Hero-worship in the sense of e...

Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Given the time and circumstanc...

Given the time and circumstances, nothing under the sun shall stop this country from becoming a super power.Being grateful has limitations, no man can be grateful at the cost of his dignity, no woman at the cost of her chastity and no country at the cost of its freedom.I hope that Mr. Gandhi will not drive me to the necessity of making a choice between his life and rights of my people, for I shall never consent to deliver my people bound hand and foot to the orthodox for generations to come.

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