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The West remains obsessed by the caste system. -- Francois Gautier
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. -- Saina Nehwal
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
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
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
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
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
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. -- Jack Kirby
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
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
As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep. -- William Winwood Reade
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals. -- Jack Kirby
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 system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work. -- Michelle Alexander
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids who need education the most so that my precious scores will rise. I will never line up with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part of the American caste system. -- John Kuhn
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 majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'. -- Michelle Alexander
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. -- Gloria Steinem
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
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
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
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

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