I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power — Narendra Modi 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
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people of the upper castes who have ruled for so long won't give up power so easily. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. — Agatha Christie 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
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
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. — Madonna Kolbenschlag Copy Share Image
Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been… — Arundhati Roy 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
Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 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
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
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
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
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King 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
As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are… — Kumar Sangakkara Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken 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