"A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy, educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill... must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions?"
-- B. R. Ambedkar"On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Education is what makes a person fearless, teaches him the lesson of unity, makes him aware of his rights."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live?"
-- B. R. Ambedkar"There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"If you choose education even when you have nothing, you can go from being a nobody to becoming a person of value."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"A great man is not one who has power and money but the one who has knowledge."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Be confident, never give up, these are the five principles of life."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"In Hinduism, conscience, reason, and independent thinking have no scope for development."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"The strength of a society depends upon the presence of points of contact, possibilities of interaction between different groups which exist in it."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Education is what makes a person aware of his existence, potential and power."
-- B. R. Ambedkar"Sentiment must be outlawed from the domain of science and things should be judged from an objective standpoint."
-- B. R. Ambedkar