Isabel Wilkerson Caste Quotes

#1. Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

Isabel Wilkerson

#2. I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.

Krishna Udayasankar

#3. Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

Clare Short

#4. I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

Todd Rundgren

#5. Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#6. I was never into smart college boy music.

Gene Ween

#7. There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Bill Simmons

#10. Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

David Icke

#11. I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Richard Dawkins

#12. If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

Leymah Gbowee

#13. Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp.

Dale Carnegie

#14. One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

John Marshall Harlan II

#15. Maybe there was no rewind button for life, but surely Matt could change the channel.

Jennifer Hillier

#16. Carbs are devastating for the brain.

David Perlmutter