Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

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

There is no caste in blood.

There should be no differentiation amongst the people. All should be treated as equals. On this basis the Brahmin must give up his false prestige. In the interest of the society. I say that the blind beliefs should be given up

The idea of the nation [India] itself is incompatible with the institution of caste.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

India’s great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in leveled the injurious distinctions of caste

Brahmins do not have the right to call themselves Indians … If India has to become a modern nation, … It has to establish an egalitarian relationship between Brahmins and the lower castes.

In a superior civilization, as, for example, that of the Indo-Aryans, the being who is without a characteristic form or caste... would emerge as a pariah. In this respect America is a society of pariahs. There is a role for pariahs. It is to be subjected to beings whose form and internal laws are precisely defined. Instead the modern pariahs seek to become dominant themselves and to exercise their dominion over all the world.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

We have to eradicate caste.

Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.