I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight. — Sanjay Gandhi Copy Share Image
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. — Gloria Steinem 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
“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
“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
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
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely… — 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
