Gandhiji's 150th birthday is planned for year long celebration from this October 2018 to October 2019. Gandhi Peace Foundation has taken up the theme " Promoting Dignity of Labour" for students participation in various competitions. This slide show is part of a workshop held on 10th September 2018.

1. Gandhi Peace Foundation, Madras
332. Ambujammal Street, Alwarpet,
Chennai 600018
( Compiled by Mr.M.D.Chander, Program Coordinator, Gandhi Peace Foundation,
Madras )
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2.  Dignity of Labour implies that all professions
or jobs are treated equally and no occupation
is considered to be superior or inferior to
others. It is therefore an extension of the
universal Principle of Equality making it a
fundamental right of every worker.
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5.  It’s high time everyone rethink whether the
life one leads is really based on dignity of
labour.
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6.  Is it based on self-reliance or self-slavery?
 Does the society encourage us to lead a life
of self-indulgence or self-restraint?
 Is our education system leading us to boss
over others or to humble ourselves to serve
others?
 Do our religions unify us or divide us?
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7.  Are we part and parcel of the problem?
 What everyone of us can do a little bit to
bring dignity for the physical labour?
 By doing so we may also derive dignity of
ourselves!
(Smt.Devaki, A Conservancy Worker in Mogappair West, Chennai, sincerely
doing her job for ten years, for 1000 tenements per day, even on rainy days.)
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8.  Mahatma Gandhi puts forward a simple
solution in which he found a sustainable
solution for all evils of the society and
establish peace and harmony.
 The solution was the simplest and the
hardest one.
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10.  “The great Nature has intended us to earn our
bread in the sweat of our brow.”
(Y.I., 11-4-’29, p. 114-15)
 “The true source of rights is duty. If we all
discharge our duties, rights will not be far to
seek.”
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11.  “The same teaching has been
embodied by Krishna in the
immortal words: 'Action alone is
thine. Leave thou the fruit severely
alone.' Action is duty: fruit is the
right.”(Y.I., 8-1-’25, p.15-16)
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12.  “If all laboured for their bread and no more,
then there would be enough food and enough
leisure for all.”
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16.  “Intelligent bread labour is any day the
highest form of social service.
The adjective 'intelligent' has been prefixed to
labour in order to show that labour to be
social service must have that definite purpose
behind it.” (H., 1-6-’35, p. 125)
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17.  “Men will no doubt do many other things
either through their bodies or through their
minds, but all this will be labour of love for
the common good.”
 “There will- then be no rich and no poor,
none high and none low, no touchable and no
untouchable.”(Harijan:29-6-’35, p. 156)
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18.  “We stand today in danger of forgetting the
use of hands. To forget how to dig the earth
and tend the soil, is to forget
ourselves…What would profit a man if he
gained the world but lost his soul into the
bargain?” – Mahatma Gandhi in
Harijan:August 25,1946
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19. NO LABOUR NO BREAD SPEED THE PLOUGH
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