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Quotes About Discrimination

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.
~ Harriot Kezia Hunt
I'm discriminated against all the time.
~ Slobodan Milosevi?
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
~ Conan O'Brien
As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.
~ Rita Wilson
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Mr. Teifert's practically ancient – at least forty, I'd say – and so not sexy or cute or Australian.
~ Mari Mancusi
And Marrakech, a place that Himself had particularly loved, transpired to be not so wonderful for me because – in one of those unfortunate oversights – I didn't have a penis. They're not so keen on women in Marrakech. To put it mildly. But that's a different story.
~ Marian Keyes
Not everyone likes an "ambitious" woman. When it's said about a man it's always in a good way. But a woman? Not so much.
~ Marian Keyes
Women and men. They played by different rules because the rules applied to them were different. It was very simple. It was the women who got pregnant and the women who ended up with the kids. All the rest stemmed from that. So women had to learn to protect themselves, had to be wary and careful. The way the rules had been set up, everything was against them.
~ Marilyn French
Americans' treatment of the Negro indicated a lack of religious seriousness.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
democratic and liberal society, despite having created the highest living standards in history and reduced social violence, exploitation and discrimination more than at any other time, does not receive the enthusiastic support of its beneficiaries, but is greeted with boredom and scorn, if not systematic hostility. For
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
el dinero abre todas las puertas y que ni siquiera los prejuicios raciales se le resisten
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
En su mirada dura y fría había algo inflexible. A Roger le recordó esas miradas vacías de humanidad de los jefes de estación de las caucherías del Putumayo, miradas de hombres que han perdido (si alguna vez la tuvieron) la facultad de discriminar entre el bien y el mal, la bondad y la maldad, lo humano y lo inhumano
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Qué difícil convencer a muchos compatriotas de que todos los seres humanos eran iguales, con prescindencia del color de su piel, de la lengua que hablaban o del dios al que rezaban!
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The gravest, most persistent sin of mankind lies in not treating everyone as an individual. So, in short, I take Arabs as they come, just like everyone else.
~ Mark Helprin
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
~ Mark Steyn
Unfortunately, when residents found that the one patient at the new place was black, they mobbed the place, set it on fire, and chased the patient and caretaker onto a boat.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.
~ Anthony Powell
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
~ Anthony Powell
The Jew's really the better-looking.
~ Anthony Powell
In his day, as is still often the case today, anything other than evident heterosexuality could destroy a public official. Acutely aware of the danger, Edgar overcompensated. Like several other public figures with a secret homosexual life, Edgar often behaved viciously toward fellow homosexuals.
~ Anthony Summers
There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;
~ Anthony Trollope
No Catholic in England and Scotland was allowed to buy or inherit land. Exercising the function of a Catholic priest or running a Catholic school were both activities punishable by life imprisonment. Catholics could not receive commissions in the army or navy, or officially be soldiers or sailors. In the same way, Catholics who declared themselves as such could not attend universities, let alone take degrees
~ Antonia Fraser