Quotes to Ponder: B. R. Ambedkar

  • Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
  • Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
  • Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
  • Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
  • I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar or simply B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer. In 1956, he launched a Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination towards the Dalits. The Dalits are the untouchables in India. About half a million of the Dalits joined him and converted to Navayana Buddhism, a new school of Buddhism said to be started by him when he re-interpreted Buddhism.


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