51 Caste Quotes for You to Enjoy

You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious. B. R. Ambedkar

Man Recognized Bad Must Religious Caste Lead Observe Because Hindus Conduct Same May Gross Inhuman Inhumanity Deeply

We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Community State Distinction Citizens Caste Between Days Equal Principle Another Discrimination Where Fundamental Fundamental Principle Creed Starting

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle. B. R. Ambedkar

Saying Fight Battle Equality Society Our We Cannot System Must Abolish Rise Rely Caste Also Hindu Without Expect Revolt Goes Cannot Against Them Ask Roots Basis

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind. B. R. Ambedkar

Mind Down State Physical Object Caste Prevents Wire Like Hindus Line Wall Which Barbed Barbed Wire Notion Bricks Therefore Pulled

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste. B. R. Ambedkar

Religion You People Enemy Inculcated Correct Must Caste Observe Wrong Observing Obviously Which Them Then View Teach Notion Who

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. Susan B. Anthony

Class Sex Accident Other Birth Caste Color Individual Sacred Principle Self-Government Any Impunity Regardless Cannot Race Incident Right Violated

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

Class Sex Precepts Unity Brotherhood Spirit Follows Caste Absolute Color His Goal Human Race Prejudices Ignoring Creed

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. Saina Nehwal

People Prosperity Believe Society System Caste Judged Cannot Basis

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines. Vijay Sethupathi

Politicians Caste Dividing Lines Us Based

There is no caste in blood. Edwin Arnold

Caste Blood

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi

Government Religion Constitution Book Will India Only Caste Concerned Accept Discrimination Any Which Far Holy Holy Book Tolerate Based Creed

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

Culture Think Striking India Structured Caste How Lines Very Egalitarian Different China Chinese Village Villages Presence

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

Politics Hope Freedom World Example Diversity Tolerance Believe Secure India Religious Pluralism Caste Proud Itself Confident Place

Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society. Arundhati Roy

Business People Every Society Everyone Ways Solidarity Hierarchical About Caste Dividing Divisions Because Up Form Lowest Even

We are against politics of religion and caste. Atishi

Politics Religion Caste Against

Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess. Beeban Kidron

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

Home Me Class Creative Writing Father Before Back Our Spend Airport Out Carry Marry Small Caste Selected Writers Had He Written Studying Come Iowa Ready Years Commands Left Surrounded Then Flew Workshop Creative Writing Night Two

Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. Forster

Caste Ideas Fatal

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

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