Arundhati Roy Quotes

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

… injustice breeds injustice

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.

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

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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

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

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

The world is an enormous injustice.

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

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

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

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

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.

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 must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.