Gopal Krishna Gokhale Quote

What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.

Extract from his speech on improving the lot of low-caste Hindus. Page=702 - Sources of Indian Tradition