Quotes About Discrimination

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

No matter what you call it, modern day racism comes to you in the guise of anti-racism and we have to start addressing it for what it is.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

Sheriff Root: Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers Deputy: How you reckon that, Sheriff Root? Sheriff Root: Kinda thing they do Deputy: What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that? Sheriff Root: MARTIAN niggers

Homosexuals are... widely consigned to the same category of things as drugs, the category of illicit dirty things that people have to be protected from... since the homosexual is continually taught by the world around him that his natural home is the sewer, the homosexual is uniquely equipped to discover what truly belongs and doesn't belong in the sewer.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in

A civilization', he once declared, 'is to be judged by its treatment of minorities.

The discriminatory nature of sexual choice undermines all egalitarian Utopias. Women might like the idea of all men being able to have equal amounts of sex, but no individual woman would be willing to forgo her power of sexual choice to allow an unattractive, unfit man to copulate with her.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, All men are created equal. All men, except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit.

Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules. I'm not sure that's the way to fight discrimination. I'm not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech.

God made them, wrote one man who said his son was homosexual. They did not choose their status. ... It is not a medical matter. ... You know there are quite as many people among them as among your so called 'normal.' ... Let your campagin remove the penal laws which make these 'diseased' people a prey for mackmailers. Give them recognition and let them live their lives.'

I'm determined to read no more books where the blond-haired women carry away all the happiness.

Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.

It is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.

For example, when there is a discussion in your office, church, or other group, there is a simple response for someone who says, "I don't think gays should be able to marry. Do you?" The response is: "I believe in equal rights, period. I don't think the state should be in the business of telling people who they can or can't marry.

men above women, Christians above non-Christians, whites above nonwhites, straights above gays.

In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men.