There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Like most young Annawadians, the girls considered the caste obsession of their elders to be an irrelevant artifact. Manju and Meena had… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My… — Ruud Gullit Copy Share Image
The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the… — Rajiv Gandhi 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
Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The… — Swami Vivekananda 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
If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste. — Keshub Chandra Sen 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
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and… — Julia Gregson Copy Share Image
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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