Babasaheb Dr B.R Ambedkar

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18 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
free labour workers have to compete with workers for obtaining work.
In this scramble for work what chances has the Untouchable for a
fair deal ? To put it shortly, in this competition with the scales always
weighing against him by reason of his social stigma he is the last to be
employed and the first to be fired. Untouchability is cruelty as compared
to slavery because it throws upon the Untouchables the responsibility
for maintaining himself without opening to him fully all the ways of
earning a living.
To sum up, the Untouchables unlike the slaves are owned by the
Hindus for purposes which further their interests and are disowned by
them, when owning them places them under burden. The Untouchables
can claim none of the advantages of an unfree social order and are left
to bear all the disadvantages of a free social order.
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