Quotes About Discrimination

There was, for example, one group in Rotterdam that refused to help Jewish people in any way, shape, or form, because they believed that the Jews had brought this misery on themselves by crucifying Christ.

Balance" is a luxury. Equality is a necessity. When we stop talking about work-life balance and start talking about discrimination against care and caregiving, we see the world differently.

The law might say I could go to a school or into a store. But it could not ensure that I would be welcome when I came to these places.

Because slavery in the United States was racially based, it was easy to graft the legally imposed incapacities of slavery onto Black people as a group, making incapacity an inherent feature of the race.

The moment a man uses a woman's sex to discredit her arguments, the thoughtful reader knows that he is unable to answer the arguments themselves.

Det er ikke lenger meg, og heller ikke Annie D, som står i sentrum. Det som finner sted i korridoren i feriekolonien, forandrer seg til en situasjon dypt forankret i uminnelige tider og kjent overalt på jorden. Hver dag og alle steder i hele verden finnes det menn som står i en sirkel rundt en kvinne, rede til å kaste stein på henne.

Je n'estimais pas que Jean T. m'avait traitée avec mépris. Pour lui, j'étais passée de la catégorie des filles dont on ne sait pas si elles acceptent de coucher à celle des filles qui, de façon indubitable, ont déjà couché.

Girls who abort and unwed mothers from working-class Rouen were handed the same treatment.

Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her.

Wer die Schule hingegen ohne Abschluss verließ, lernte früh, sich unwürdig zu fühlen, er war 'unfähig'. Das Loblied auf die Bildung verschleierte die Tatsache, dass Zugang zu ihr beschränkt war.

Como toda lengua, esa también jerarquizaba, estigmatizaba, a los vagos, a las mujeres casquivanas, a los «sátiros» y los malvados, a los niños malcriados, alababa a las

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

There are cops who be racially profiling.

Racial profiling has to stop.

I've physically seen profiling. I've seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can't do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off.

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

It honestly affects my mental health, social media, on a really profound level. Because I'm constantly being bombarded with an image of femininity that I feel I have to adhere to. And I think there's a lot of pressure in this industry, as well, being constantly discriminated on your aesthetic appearance.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.