The image of that dying leprosy patient was burning me like a branding iron and would not give me a moment's rest. From that moment on I was out to conquer fear.... Where there is fear there is no love. Where there is no love there is no God.

His reaction after he had given away his wealth and legal career and had set up a work camp and started living with common people with his family when he had met a dying leper on the road, pages=6-7 - Baba Amte: A Vision of New India