Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
Castes never meant that much to me.
Women were relegated to an inferior caste. . . most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
There is no caste in blood.
Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources. . . - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.
All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.
I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.
