Quotes About Discrimination

One feature of the trial – as with all other trials – was of course the fact that the jury consisted entirely of Protestants, Catholics being debarred from jury service.

In the 1820s there was prejudice, but there was also progress.

If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally, enjoying equal protection under the law), that they turn their attention—during wartime—to blocking rights already denied to homosexuals, then all the cardio striptease classes in the world aren't going to render us sexually liberated.

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

You must know that the English people would never accept a half-black woman as their queen.

Being compared to a Russian pogromchik didn't faze that German as much as hearing Brody called Sodom. Did he fly off the handle! The Russians, he said, had the right idea. If you asked him, there should be more pogroms.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

Jack Good, a veteran of Bletchley, commented: "Fortunately the authorities did not know that Turing was a homosexual. Otherwise we might have lost the war.

NaÅ¡tÄ›stí nahoÃ…â"¢e nevÄ›dÄ›li, že Turing je homosexuál, jinak bychom také mohli prohrát válku.

Los nazis consideraban la eutanasia como una clase de ejecución casi ética y la reservaban para miembros de su propia raza

Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called the sex, by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.

Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so forth, and they hold the most important positions.

It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

every time she acts like a human being, she is said to be imitating the male.

the oppressor always attempts to diminish those he oppresses; man intentionally refuses women their chances.

when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the 'fact' is that he or they 'are' inferior.

Trudno bowiem m??czy?nie oceni? ogromne znaczenie dyskryminacji spoÅ'ecznych, które na zewnÄ…trz wydajÄ… siÄ™ bÅ'ahe, a których konsekwencje moralne i intelektualne tkwiÄ… w kobiecie tak gÅ'Ä™boko, ?e wydajÄ… siÄ™ mie? ?ródÅ'o w jej pierwotnej strukturze.

in the United States a "poor white" from the South can console himself for not being a "dirty nigger"; and more prosperous whites cleverly exploit this pride.

Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.

Tak ako v Amerike nie je problém ?ernochov, ale problém bielych, tak ako "antisemitizmus nie je problém židovský, ale problém náÅ¡," tak problém ženy bol vždy problémom mužov.