Saina Nehwal Quotes

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.

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.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.

Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.

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

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

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

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.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

There is no caste in blood.

Allow not the abject to rule over and dominate them who are noble and worthy of honour, and suffer not the high-minded to be at the mercy of the contemptible and worthless, for this is what We observed upon Our arrival in the City (Constantinople), and to it We bear witness. We found among its inhabitants some who were possessed of an affluent fortune and lived in the midst of excessive riches, whilst others were in dire want and abject poverty. This ill beseemeth thy sovereignty, and is unworthy of thy rank…. strive thou to rule with equity among men

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.

Not many people appear to advocate—although most a quite prepared to tolerate—a society where some people are worth less than others.

Caste in India is the first and last reality.

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

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

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.

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.

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.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.