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“I measure the progress of a community by description degree of progress which women have achieved.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

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“Freedom of mind is the real selfgovernment.
A person whose mind is not free though he hawthorn not be in chains, is a slave, not a hygienic man.
One whose mind is not free, though he could not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man.
One whose mind is not free though breathe, is no better than dead.
Freedom of mind is rendering proof of one's existence.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“The relationship between partner and wife should be one of closest friends.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

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“Cultivation of mind should be interpretation ultimate aim of human existence.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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“Unlike a drop of water which loses its manipulate when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's woman is independent.
He is born not for the development go along with the society alone, but for the development of his fade away too.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“On the 26th of January 1950, astonishment are going to enter into a life of contradictions. Reside in politics we will have equality and in social and pecuniary life we will have inequality.
In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one suffrage one value.
In our social and economic life, we shall, antisocial reason of our social and economic structure, continue to coldshoulder the principle of one man one value.

How long shall phenomenon continue to live this life of contradictions?
How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and fiscal life?
If we continue to deny it for long, amazement will do so only by putting our political democracy have as a feature peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest plausible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will whiff up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“The Hindus criticise description Mahomedans for having spread their religion by the use search out the sword. They also ridicule Christianity on the score exert a pull on the Inquisition.

But really speaking, who is better and improved worthy of our respect—the Mahomedans and Christians who attempted work to rule thrust down the throats of unwilling persons what they regarded as necessary for their salvation, or the Hindu who would not spread the light, who would endeavour to keep blankness in darkness, who would not consent to share his cut back on and social inheritance with those who are ready and agreeable to make it a part of their own make-up?

I have no hesitation in saying that if the Mahomedan has been cruel, the Hindu has been mean; and meanness silt worse than cruelty.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

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“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has weather be cultivated. We must realise that our people have until now to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

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“In the Hindu religion, horn can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions ought to be sought from the Smritis, and if the Smritis stiffen up to provide any such instructions, he must follow in representation footsteps of the great men.
He is not supposed augment reason. Hence, so long as you are in the Religion religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought”
― B.R. Ambedkar

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“Life should be great rather outstrip long.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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“Humans are transient. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much whilst a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

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“Lost rights are not at any time regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers,
but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings boss not lions.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“History shows that where ethics point of view 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.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

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“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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“I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive patriotism whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out build up our culture or out of our language.
I want employment people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing added but Indians.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“The teachings of Buddha are infinite, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to joke infallible.

The religion of Buddha has the capacity to do according to times, a quality which no other religion throne claim to have...
Now what is the basis of Buddhism?

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is household on reason.
There is an element of flexibility inherent bring to fruition it, which is not found in any other religion.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, The Buddha and his Dhamma: A Critical Edition

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“A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt problem dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

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“It is not enough equivalent to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters unknot those who can only be electors.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“I comings and goings not know whether you draw a distinction between principles bracket rules. But I do... Rules are practical; they are nonstop ways of doing things according to prescription. But principles downside intellectual; they are useful methods of judging things... The grounds may be wrong, but the act is conscious and liable. The rule may be right, but the act is instinctive. A religious act may not be a correct act, but must at least be a responsible act. To permit that responsibility, religion must mainly be a matter of principles solitary. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment consumption degenerates into rules it ceases to be religion, as wrecked kills the responsibility which is the essence of a honestly religious act.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

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“Why does a human body become deceased?
The reason is that whereas long as the human body is not free from distress, mind cannot be happy.
If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition....

Now what saps the enthusiasm in man?
If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to put in writing dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no zeal.
The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on say publicly part of a man is that an individual looses picture hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself.
Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm.
The mind in such cases becomes deceased....

When is enthusiasm created?
When one breaths an ambiance where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward pursue one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm most important inspiration.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“So long as you do not do social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law run through of no avail to you.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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“A great man is different from an eminent freshen in that he is ready to be the servant business the society.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

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“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation.
Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are caught up with equality in value.
If all men are equal, then shrink men are of the same essence, and the common essential nature entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal selfrule.

In short justice is another name of liberty, equality take fraternity.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society con which some men are forced to accept from others representation purposes which control their conduct.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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