Caste System Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids… — John Kuhn
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in… — Michelle Alexander
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast… — Michelle Alexander
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice… — Michelle Alexander
The West remains obsessed by the caste system. — Francois Gautier
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. — Swami Vivekananda
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk… — Isabel Wilkerson
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They… — Isabel Wilkerson
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race… — Michael Eric Dyson
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. — Saina Nehwal
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by… — F. Sionil Jose
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a… — Seamus Heaney
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority,… — Anita Desai
We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move.… — Ben Hecht

Who Wrote These Caste System Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Caste System Quotes as follows: