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Quotes About Discrimination

Those are first warnings about distinguishing the Pauline Paul from the Lukan Paul by separation and discrimination
~ John Dominic Crossan
Make sure he ain't a dinge, boys.Make sure he ain't a guinea or a kike,how can you tell a guy's a hunredpercent when all you've got's a gunnysack full of bones, bronze buttons stamped with the screaming eagle and a pair of roll puttees?
~ John Dos Passos
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.
~ Jimmy Fallon
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
~ Aberjhani
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
~ E.M. Forster, Maurice
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
~ Nora Roberts, Black Rose
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
~ Edward Heath
Modularity permits the efficient discrimination of context.
~ Edward J. Laurent
There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2
~ Edward Margolies
Himes observed at once that Negroes were not the only ones to suffer discrimination and violence. Filipinos, Mexicans, and Japanese Americans were also vulnerable. The fragile sense of interracial fraternity he had known during his WPA years was all but dissipated.
~ Edward Margolies
Jack Warner "didn't want any niggers on his lot." At another studio where he was being considered for a publicity position, he learned that the all-Negro cast of Cabin in the Sky was excluded from the whites-only commissary.
~ Edward Margolies
All things being equal (fortunately things are seldom equal, not exactly), people prefer to be with others who look like them, speak the same dialect, and hold the same beliefs. An amplification of this evidently inborn predisposition leads with frightening ease to racism and religious bigotry. Then, also with frightening ease, good people do bad things. I know this truth from experience, having grown up in the Deep South during the 1930s
~ Edward O. Wilson
pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. Even
~ Edward O. Wilson
Civilisation displays and endorses the conception of love, harmony, justice, and equal rights for everyone regardless of the discrimination; conversely, one feels that the West indeed becomes civilised; however, one seems not to believe that the West behaves the same with others. Civilisation is still to achieve and apply as its real conception.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Discrimination has not the horns; however, it has the attitude, which one feels, and one ignores; it harms and hurts, indeed.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Fight reasons and context that cause racism, not just the term.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Hatred, racism, discrimination, distinction, and vainglory germinate in the soil of ego.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Naturally, I carry not a distinctive card between white and black; however, I resist and fight discriminating and inhuman conduct between black and white in whatever way by whoever. My heart and prayer stay in the rights of the victims since equality speaks humanity; otherwise, transparent justice becomes crucified; it's a mentality of evil.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
No one can hide and stop the stink of ego, racism, distinction, and discrimination.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The abuse, insult, humiliation, and discrimination against whatever subject is not freedom of expression and writing; it is a violation and denial of global harmony and peace.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The discrimination does not only relate to the creed, caste, and colour, but that also describes the severe attitude if one respects higher class and humiliates the lower or middle class in any shape.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The worst crime in this world is victimization, whether it is a person, system, or constitution of society.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The prostitutes were from the lowest social levels and, like all women who catered to foreign men, came to be called rashamen, "Western sheep," and were ostracized from Japanese society. 29 From this group of Japanese women the Western artists and photographers found their models.
~ Eleanor M. Hight