Narendra Modi Quotes

Society is better off without certain people.

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Since the day I was born as a low-caste Indian, I've had to fight.

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.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.