Why are we low and they high? Just because they wear a sacred thread around their neck?
Premchand Quotes on Society
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Verified quotations by Premchand concerning society, caste, inequality, justice, and social relations.
Who understands the pain of the poor! We may even die, and no one comes to our door; giving a shoulder is a different matter.
She will go to heaven; otherwise, will these fat people go, who rob the poor with both hands and wash their sins by bathing in the Ganges and offering water at temples?
They steal, they commit fraud, they bring false lawsuits. In what way are they higher than us?
The whole village drinks water from this well. No one is forbidden, only these unfortunate people cannot draw it.
This is what is called a panchayat! Milk has been separated from water and water from milk.
In a society where the condition of those who worked day and night was not much better than theirs, the emergence of such a mentality was hardly surprising.
Merely passing examinations is nothing; the real thing is the development of intellect. Whatever you read, understand its meaning.
They have made us work, but paying wages is like pulling out their teeth.
How can they claim to be higher than us? We do not go around shouting that we are high-born.
Poor Mahangu was beaten so badly that he kept spitting blood for months. And for what? Because he had refused to perform unpaid labor.
Such is their pride: they are convinced that they are high-born.