Castes Quotes

92 quotes by 66 authors

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
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian… — Aravind Adiga
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. — Edwin Arnold
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt
If we want to do more than just end mass incarcerationâ€”if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in Americaâ€”we… — Michelle Alexander
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that. — A. R. Rahman
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Ideas are fatal to caste. — E. M. Forster
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. — Guru Nanak
I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I… — Sidney Poitier
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. — Sargent Shriver
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
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to… — Michael Eric Dyson
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. — Agatha Christie
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take… — Julia Gregson
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,… — William Faulkner

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