Outcasting in its most horrible forms would often come down upon the head of a man in the West if he dared to say a word against his country's accepted religion.
They talk glibly and smoothly here in criticism of our caste laws. If you go to the West and live there as I have done, you will know that even some of the biggest professors you hear of are arrant cowards and dare not say, for fear of public opinion, a hundredth part of what they hold to be really true in religious matters.
Therefore the world is waiting for this grand idea of universal toleration.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Kumbakonam,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
They talk glibly and smoothly here in criticism of our caste laws. If you go to the West and live there as I have done, you will know that even some of the biggest professors you hear of are arrant cowards and dare not say, for fear of public opinion, a hundredth part of what they hold to be really true in religious matters.
Therefore the world is waiting for this grand idea of universal toleration.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Kumbakonam,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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