David Player

“The caste system has historically rewarded snitches and sellouts among the lowest caste, as with the enforcers in the concentration camps of the Third Reich and the slave drivers on southern plantations.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“But care, it is our lot now,” Mama was saying. “It is our service to others that defines us. We are doers of the Word.”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

“We think we ‘see’ race when we encounter certain physical differences among people such as skin color eye shape, and hair texture,” the Smedleys wrote. “What we actually ‘see’ … are the learned social meanings, the stereotypes, that have been linked to those physical features by the ideology of race and the historical legacy it has left us.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Caste in the South,” wrote the anthropologists W. Lloyd Warner and Allison Davis, “is a system for arbitrarily defining the status of all Negroes and of all whites with regard to the most fundamental privileges and opportunities of human society.” It would become the social, economic, and psychological template at work in one degree or another for generations.”
― Isabel Wilkerson