He felt that India should not join the camp of either Russia or America. She must remain nonaligned. This, however, should not mean transferring India's approval from one country to another. It was his view that the free countries of Asia and Africa should form a third force. Men should not hate one another because of the color of the skin.
Racial hatred is treachery to mankind.
All men are equal. Lohia was a firm adherent of this ideology. This was why Lohia staged satyagraha in an episode involving racialist prejudices in a restaurant in Jackson a town in America. He was arrested at the time. In his life span of 57 years Ram Manohar Lohia suffered imprisonment twenty times.