I would far rather that Hinduism died than untouchability lived. My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity. To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable, or invisible, is to deny God. Anger, lust and such other evil passions ranging in the heart are the real untouchables. There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women. Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what tremendous advantage she has over man. This file was last modified June 18, 1996.