"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, i
"The theory of invasion is an invention. This invention is necessary because of a gratuitous assumption which underlies the Western theory. The assumption is that the Indo-Germanic people are the purest of the modem representatives of the original Aryan race."
B. R. Ambedkar"I have met Doctor Ambedkar. He was one of the intelligent men I have ever met."
B. R. Ambedkar"There is no place for an individual in Hindu society. The Hindu religion is constituted on the class concept. The Hindu religion does not teach as to how an individual should behave with another individual."
B. R. Ambedkar"Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers."
B. R. Ambedkar"[W]hat should be the policy of the State, how the Society should be organised in its social and economic side are matters which must be decided by the people themselves according to time and circumstances. It cannot be laid down in the Constitution itself because that is destroying democracy altogether."
B. R. Ambedkar"Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress."
B. R. Ambedkar