...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the… — George Orwell 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
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
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
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
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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
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
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have… — John Green Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew 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 avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny.… — Vsevolod Meyerhold Copy Share Image
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
"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
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
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
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 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
Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative,… — 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
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
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in… — Aravind Adiga 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
We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that… — Narendra Modi 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
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
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
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
