Periyar E. V. Ramasamy: Cast

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy was Tamil politician and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on cast.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy: 94 quotes23 likes

“It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 511.
Untouchability

“There is no Brahmin or Sudra (Backard Caste) or Pariah (the Untouchables) in England. In Russia you do not have Varnasrama (Casteism) dharma or fate.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 486.
Untouchability

“Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Quoted in [.http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ibnZAAAAMAAJ Indian Journal of Social Development: An International Journal, Volume 7], p220.
Marriage

“I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 517.
Brahminism

“It gave me extraordinary pleasure to fling at the pundits their own contradictions and Thus perplex Them. It also gave me the reputation, among our neighbours of being a clever speaker. I believe that it was this experience which deprived me of faith in castes and communities, in religion, in "puranas", in "sastras" and in god.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Brahminism <br class="br">Source: Quoted in Rationalist /Social Reformer http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gk1415/periyar.htm