“Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious not of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.”

Kenneth Kaunda: Zambia's First President's Memorable Quotes, MSN.com, 17 June 2021 https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/kenneth-kaunda-zambias-first-presidents-memorable-quotes/ar-AAL9zVF,

Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 485.
Untouchability

Source: The Moral Status of Animals, p. 47

referring to the Anglican Primate of South Africa, Archibishop Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town

"Spring and All"
Spring and All (1923)
Context: Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches —
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined —
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of
entrance — Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken.

Say You, Say Me.
Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)

Source: On Writing (2002)

Thermopylae http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=69&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Context: Honor to those who in the life they lead
define and guard a Thermopylae.
Never betraying what is right,
consistent and just in all they do
but showing pity also, and compassion;
generous when they are rich, and when they are poor,
still generous in small ways,
still helping as much as they can;
always speaking the truth,
yet without hating those who lie.