I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. — Michelle Alexander 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
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
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from… — Narendra Modi 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
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however… — Satish Kumar 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
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
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
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and… — Indira Gandhi 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
I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America. — Michelle Alexander 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
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image