Frases de B.R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar fue un jurista, académico y político indio. Es reconocido por su larga lucha en favor de los derechos de la casta intocable, a la que pertenecía, así como por su conversión al budismo. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. abril 1891 – 6. diciembre 1956
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B.R. Ambedkar: Frases en inglés

“In Hinduism, conscience, reason, and independent thinking have no scope for development.”

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

“This spirit of retaliation bids fair to produce the ugly spectacle of gangsterism against gangsterism.”

Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
Contexto: The third thing that is noticeable is the adoption by the Muslims of the gangster's method in politics. The riots are a sufficient indication that gangsterism has become a settled part of their strategy in politics. They seem to be consciously and deliberately imitating the Sudeten Germans in the means employed by them against the Czechs. So long as the Muslims were the aggressors, the Hindus were passive, and in the conflict they suffered more than the Muslims did. But this is no longer true. The Hindus have learned to retaliate and no longer feel any compunction in knifing a Musalman. This spirit of retaliation bids fair to produce the ugly spectacle of gangsterism against gangsterism.
How to meet this problem must exercise the minds of all concerned. (p. 269)

“Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.”

As quoted in The Annihilation of Caste http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/web/section_4.html

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”

As quoted in The Ultimate Book of Quotations by Joseph Demakis, p. 415 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kOnjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA415&lpg=PA415&dq=%22I+measure+the+progress+of+a+community+by+the+degree+of+progress+which+women+have+achieved.%22&source=bl&ots=6Sioo741pq&sig=noA7WLMLys1qWi5_CHIYKkWg9j0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIzc7x1feSyAIVRhmOCh24BAME#v=onepage&q=%22I%20measure%20the%20progress%20of%20a%20community%20by%20the%20degree%20of%20progress%20which%20women%20have%20achieved.%22&f=false

“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.”

As quoted in Book Of Happiness, by Jagdish Gupta https://books.google.co.in/books?id=H7cwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=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%27s+life+is+i&source=bl&ots=eVeEf_7dR3&sig=88DaiaoPeTdFtzRM73yLcZmasVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEMQ6AEwB2oVChMIh7H05PiSyAIVRNSOCh2zIABs#v=onepage&q=Unlike%20a%20drop%20of%20water%20which%20loses%20its%20identity%20when%20it%20joins%20the%20ocean%2C%20man%20does%20not%20lose%20his%20being%20in%20the%20society%20in%20which%20he%20lives.%20Man%27s%20life%20is%20i&f=false
Variante: 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.

“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.”

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
Variante: 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.

“Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.”

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in the Bombay Legislature https://archive.org/stream/Ambedkar_CompleteWorks/13A.%20Dr.%20Ambedkar%20in%20the%20Bombay%20Legislature%20PART%20I_djvu.txt

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

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

“I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.”

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”

As quoted in "The bogey of forced conversions", in The Hindu (26 October 2008) http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/26/stories/2008102650150500.htm

“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”

Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference (31 May 1936)