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Caste is important for selection of home minister. -- Sushilkumar Shinde
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Ideas are fatal to caste. -- E. M. Forster
There is no caste in blood. -- Edwin Arnold
The West remains obsessed by the caste system. -- Francois Gautier
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me. -- Shashi Tharoor
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. -- Guru Nanak
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. -- Saina Nehwal
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion. -- Oscar Fernandes
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 - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. -- F. Sionil Jose
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. -- Gloria Steinem
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system. -- Seamus Heaney
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. -- John Marshall Harlan
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views. -- Katherine Boo
Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out. -- Zoe Kravitz
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, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. -- Anita Desai
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom. -- Tyler Cowen
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. -- Shashi Tharoor
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 wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. -- Sidney Poitier
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 about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured. -- Isabel Wilkerson
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. -- Michael Eric Dyson
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 and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites. -- Michael Eric Dyson
There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. -- Rose George
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. -- Bharati Mukherjee
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 didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow. -- Isabel Wilkerson
The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection. -- Swami Vivekananda
A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste. -- Amit Kalantri
Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. -- Agatha Christie
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
We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it -- Michelle Alexander
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am! -- Kabir
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. -- Gloria Steinem
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste. -- Swami Vivekananda
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits -- H. L. Mencken
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power -- Narendra Modi
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. -- Swami Vivekananda
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. -- Narendra Modi
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. -- Jack Kirby
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. -- Avery Brundage
We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love. -- Santosh Kalwar
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
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. -- Peter Drucker
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
The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same. -- Adhish Mazumder
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. -- Peter Abrahams
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
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. -- Narendra Modi
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
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. -- Gelett Burgess
At school, I used to hear, 'You're a half-caste.' They'd laugh at my figure and say, 'Are you a boy or a girl?' -- Jane Birkin
Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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 neighborhood. -- Aravind Adiga
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. -- George Bancroft
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. -- George Orwell
According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered. -- Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied. -- Kate Millett
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair. -- N. T. Wright
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white. -- Peter Abrahams
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. -- Indira Gandhi
We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government -- Narendra Modi
I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village. -- Pankaj Mishra
It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that. -- Peter Jason
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 not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner

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