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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Indian scholar, jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who is regarded as Father of Indian Constitution

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A good man cannot be a master and a master cannot be a good man.

– Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

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Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

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Freedom of mind is the Real Freedom. 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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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

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Caste is not just a division of labor, it is a division of laborers.

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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe caste because they are deeply religious.

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Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

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

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I shall have no faith in Rama and Krishna who are believed to be incarnation of God nor shall I worship them. I thereby reject my old religion, Hinduism, which is detrimental to the prosperity of human kind and which discriminates between man and man and which treats me as inferior.

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

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If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help.

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If you study carefully you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it which is not found in any other religion.

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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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Life should be great rather than long.

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Men 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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My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.

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Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

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Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.

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Political democracy cannot last unless there is at the base of it, a social democracy.

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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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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

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Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

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So long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.

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They cannot make history who forget history.

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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of him self.

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We are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality and in social and economic rights, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction or else who suffer from this inequality will blow up the structure.

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