Quotes from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

A good man cannot be a master and a master cannot be a good man.

Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Caste is not just a division of labor, it is a division of laborers.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe caste because they are deeply religious.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Freedom of mind is the Real Freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains is a Slave, not a Free Man.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.

Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.

Political democracy cannot last unless there is at the base of it, a social democracy.

Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

So long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.

They cannot make history who forget history.

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 him self.

We are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality and in social and economic rights, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction or else who suffer from this inequality will blow up the structure.