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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar

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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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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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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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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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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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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 his self.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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