Caste System Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The West remains obsessed by the caste system.
— Francois Gautier
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This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.
— Swami Vivekananda
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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
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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
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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
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I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
— Saina Nehwal
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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
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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
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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
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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: