“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
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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Do you really believe that freedom of choice exists? India still has a caste system. Most of the Middle East treats women… — Jack Kilborn 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
“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
“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
“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
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander 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 Hindu caste system and its attendant laws of purity became deeply embedded in Indian culture. Long after the Indo-Aryan invasion was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
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
I wanted to visit India because I have always wanted to explore the country. More than that, I have always found the… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
