“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.” — Glynn Stewart Copy Share Image
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. — Saina Nehwal Copy Share Image
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
“A deepening class divide makes social mobility all but impossible. The result is a de facto caste system. This is not only… — Jessica Bruder Copy Share Image
“there is no inconsistency whatsoever between the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land and the existence of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“Initially the caste system was simply a reflection of the occupation one held but over time it seems to have transformed into… — Adam Brown 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
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“the worst thing that could happen to a colored child in the South was for a parent to hear that a child… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I have never been this white anywhere in the world. I've never had the most obvious, most useful kind of privilege as… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“People allow India to exist only in two versions: In the first, everything is too beautiful to be encapsulated, women are swarthy… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Ants have a powerful caste system. A colony typically contains ants that carry out radically different roles and have markedly different body… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. In Chicago (as in other cities across the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Our past is not sacred for being past, and there is much that is behind us that we are struggling to keep… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this… — Amalia Mesa-Bains Copy Share Image
“Like his colleague Thomas, he viewed prejudice as a form of instinct, but where Thomas set it down to a reaction to… — Pierre Saint-Arnaud Copy Share Image
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
