If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight. — Sanjay Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“B.R. Ambedkar believed the tale was not so much about Ram’s character as it was about the unsustainability of the caste system… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“You can take an Indian out of the caste system, but you cannot take the caste system out of an Indian.” — Farahad Zama Copy Share Image
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Is the division into men and women a product of the imagination, like the caste system in India and the racial system… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,'… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
“We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies.… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, he adds, the dominant castes that were ‘most successful in their attempt at conquering power managed to be recognized as… — Namit Arora Copy Share Image
Because of the men in charge of this system, they've created this caste system for women that gives some of the women… — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“If we were all blinded to the larger implications of the events that were sweeping upon us it was not entirely due… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The notion that racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“History seemed to repeat itself. Just as the white elite had successfully driven a wedge between poor whites and blacks following Bacon's… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
