The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. — Gloria Steinem 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
If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight. — Sanjay Gandhi 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
“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
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
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
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
“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.” — Glynn Stewart 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“The Navy’s caste system has the reputation of being about as rigid as any in the world. The first thing most Navy… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?… The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond… — Michelle Alexander 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
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
“The origin of the caste system, formulated by the great legislator Manu, was admirable. He saw clearly that men are distinguished by… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules." You can't really believe that!" I do believe… — Libba Bray 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
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and… — Mark Cahill 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
“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
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
