“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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of… — B. R. Ambedkar 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
