In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has… — Bari Weiss 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
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
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
“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 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
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
As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — 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
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
