Excerpt from a letter by Mahatma Gandhi to J.B.Kripalani, on Feb 24, 1947.
"I fail to understand why others regard Harijans as inferior. I have myself become a Bhangi. If I swept your lanes and cleaned your latrines, and you hurled abuses at me and I tolerated them, how would I then become low? Those who are engaged in scavenging are not inferior but it is those who abuse others that are low. Those who do the cleaning for us and serve us should be treated with love by all of us."
Source - 'My Letters, M.K.Gandhi', Pustak Mahal Publishers.
"I fail to understand why others regard Harijans as inferior. I have myself become a Bhangi. If I swept your lanes and cleaned your latrines, and you hurled abuses at me and I tolerated them, how would I then become low? Those who are engaged in scavenging are not inferior but it is those who abuse others that are low. Those who do the cleaning for us and serve us should be treated with love by all of us."
Source - 'My Letters, M.K.Gandhi', Pustak Mahal Publishers.
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