Dr B. R. Ambedkar

“my ideal would be a society based on Liberty, Equality and fraternity, which is only another name for democracy.”

“Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

“The third thing we must do is not to be content with mere political democracy. We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well.”

“These principles of liberty, equality and fraternity are not to be treated as separate items in a trinity.”

“Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative.”

“If we wish to preserve the Constitution in which we have sought to enshrine the principle of Government of the people, for the people and by the people, let us resolve not to be tardy in the recognition of the evils that lie across our path”

“The destruction of Caste does not therefore mean the destruction of a physical barrier. It means a notional change.”

“People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste.”

“To agitate for and to organise inter-caste dinners and inter-caste marriages is like forced feeding brought about by artificial means.”

“You must not only discard the Shastras, you must deny their authority, as did Buddha and Nanak.”

“The problem of Untouchability is a matter of class struggle. It is a struggle between caste Hindus and the Untouchables.”

“Those who wish to live a life with self-respect and equality, will have to think it over.”

“Three factors are required for the uplift of an individual. They are: Sympathy, Equality, and Liberty.”

“A religion which does not recognize the individual is not acceptable to me personally.”

“A right which is guaranteed by law but is opposed by the society is of no use at all.”

“Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.”

“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”

“I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. Buddhism teaches prajna (understanding as against superstition and supernaturalism), karuna (love), and samara (equality).”

“Unlike a drop of water which submerges its existence with the ocean in which it is dropped, man does not lose his identity in the society in which he lives. The man's life is independent.”

“what should be the policy of the State, how the Society should be organised in its social and economic side are matters which must be decided by the people themselves according to time and circumstances.”

“Unfortunately for the minorities in India, Indian Nationalism has developed a new doctrine which may be called the Divine Right of the Majority to rule the minorities according to the wishes of the majority.”

“Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny, and a reformer who defies society is a much more courageous man than a politician who defies the government.”

“Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.”

“He is not supposed to reason. Hence, so long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought”

“The theory of invasion is an invention. This invention is necessary because of a gratuitous assumption which underlies the Western theory.”

“For fraternity can be a fact only when there is a nation. Without fraternity equality and liberty will be no deeper than coats of paint.”