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Castes Quotes by Michelle Alexander
- 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…
- 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…
- We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it
- 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…
- Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,…
- We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view,…
- If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we…
More Castes Quotes
- I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men… — Martin Delany
- We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We… — William Faulkner
- I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know… — Mark Twain
- The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky
- There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one… — Sathya Sai Baba
- All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions… — Meher Baba
- As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of… — Salvatore Quasimodo
- ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against… — Immanuel Wallerstein
- The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits — H. L. Mencken
- Caste is important for selection of home minister. — Sushilkumar Shinde
- This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the… — Swami Vivekananda