Racist quotes of Gandhi :-
1. “It was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs.”
2. “Thanks to the Court’s decision, only clean Indians or Coloured people other than Kaffirs can now travel by the trams.”
3. “Boer leaders should not consider Indians as being on the same level as Kaffirs.”
4. “The Boer mind refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Africa.”
5. “If registration is made compulsory, there will be no difference between Indians and Kaffirs.”
6. “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!”
7. “The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets.”
8. “Many of the Native prisoners are only one degree removed from the animal and often created rows and fought among themselves in their cells.”
9. “We were then marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. There, our garments were stamped with the letter ‘N,’ which meant that we were being classed with the Natives. We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with.
10. “I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life.”
11. "I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others.”
12. “There was urgent need for separate lavatories for Indians. I also told him that Indian prisoners should never be lodged with Kaffirs. The Governor immediately issued an order for a lavatory for Indians to be sent on from the Central Gaol.”
13. “First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to the restrictions of gaol life, wear coarse and ungainly dress, eat food which is hardly food, starve ourselves, suffer being kicked by the warder, live among the Kaffirs. Better die than suffer this.”
14. “We were locked up with the Kaffirs. There was not a single European officer who described us as Indians. We were called “sammies” or “coolies”.
Source : Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi
H/T : OBADELE KAMBON
