Today is the death anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, read his inspirational thoughts

Jyotiba
Phule was born on 11 April 1827 and died on 28 November 1890. His full name was
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule. Mahatma Jyotiba Phule’s father Govind Rao was a
farmer and also worked as  flower vender
in Pune. His mother died when he was young.

Jyotiba
Phule is known as a philanthropist, writer, philosopher and revolutionary.

Mahatma
Jyotiba Phule fought a big battle against caste discrimination, gender
discrimination, high altitude. Not only this, he presented the concept of a
society based on the values ​​of justice and equality.

He used to advocate
women education a lot, this is the reason that when he was married to
Savitribai Phule in 1840, he inspired his wife Savitribai Phule to study.

In 1852 they
established three schools, but in 1858 they were closed due to lack of funds.
Savitribai Phule later became the first trained female teacher in the country.
He called upon the people to educate their children.

Some of his
inspirational thoughts were like such:

In India,
the feeling of nationalism will not develop as long as ethnic bonding will
remain on food and marital relations.

-Mahatma
Jyotiba Rao Phule

To complete
a good work, one should not use bad measures.

-Jyotiba
Phule

Due to
economic inequality, the lives of farmers have become disrupted.

-Jyotiba
Phule