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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 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'.

    Race   Order   Law  
  • 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.

    Mean   Reality   Race  
    "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.
  • If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

  • I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

    "Juggling with destiny" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.
  • 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.

    Fall   Sleep   Men  
    William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507
  • I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

    Humble   Artist   Editors  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, the Indian government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it's actually creating the problems.

    Source: progressive.org
  • A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

  • Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

    Country   Lynching   Land  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org
  • Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."

    Men   Artist   Two  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • 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.

    Humble   Artist   Simple  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • 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.

    "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.
  • We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

    William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
  • I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

  • 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 America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

    Mean   Men   America  
    "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.
  • 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.

    Teacher   School   Kids  
  • 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.

  • This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

    Business   Father   Son  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3702, Manonmani Publishers
  • 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 use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.

    Moving   Two   Practice  
  • 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.

    Men   Cities   Justice  
    "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.
  • 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.

    Children   Pain   Home  
  • The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time.

    Men   Color   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

    Sex   Color   Racism  
  • 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 (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
  • The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

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