Quotes About Discrimination

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Miss?" She wasn't a "Miss"; she was well over forty, but the old ones loved being mistaken for young meat.

You gotta love a country where there are rules for being poor, and rich people make them.

You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

Er bestaat geen grotere vijandschap op de wereld dan tussen Duitsers en joden.

One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!

Fizeram questão de lembrar que somos judeus acorrentados, acorrentados num lugar, sem qualquer direito, mas com mil deveres.

So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself.

vuelto a tomar conciencia del hecho de que somos judíos encadenados, encadenados a un único lugar, sin derechos, con miles de obligaciones.

Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!

Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas. De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.

Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. Only