Good morning, Let us celebrate Gandhi Jayanthi in the true spirit of Gandhian principles. Abstracts from the speeches Gandhi delivered from time to time (Historic Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi, edited by Ramesh Bharadwaj): * Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability, it has degraded us, made us the pariahs of the Empire….. So long as the Hindus willfully regard untouchability as part of their religion, so long as the mass of Hindus consider it as a sin to touch a section of their brethren, Swaraj is impossible of attainment. Yudhishthira would not enter heaven without his dog. How can, then, the descendants of that Yudhishthiora expect to obtain Swaraj without the untouchables? (From a speech at Suppressed Classes Conference at Ahmadabad, on 13 April 1921) * In Satyagraha, there is no place for fraud or falsehood or any kind of untruth. Fraud and untruth today are stalking the world. (Speech delivered as AICC in 1942) Here is amantra, a short one and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra is: “Do or Die’. We shall either free India or die in the attempt: we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery (Speech delivered as AICC in 1942) Millions Musssalmans in this country come from Hindu stock. How can their homeland be any other than India? My eldest son embraced Islam some years back. What would his homeland be- Porabander or the Punjab? I ask the Mussalmans: if India is not your homeland, what other country do you belong to? In what separate homeland would you put my son who embraced Islam? (Speech delivered as AICC in 1942)
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