Quotes About Discrimination

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

The only time I used to regret being a woman was when I had to use the toilets on sets when I would be shooting.

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.

I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

Most clubs say they will not tolerate any forms of discrimination - that cannot be something that is just said. It needs to be acted on.

Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace.

Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

Before the Holocaust," Paul was explaining to Daryl now, "when someone tripped on a paving stone in the road, the folk saying went, A Jew must be buried there. So the stumble stones take the old folk saying

Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.

Thats why we'll never get rid of homophobia in this country. The brothers and sisters of homosexuals have too much at stake.

Don't you think that queer? That a common coarse-featured woman might drink morphia and be sent to gaol for it, while I am saved and sent to visit her—and all because I am a lady?

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

Q: What do you call a fat Chinaman? A: A chunk.

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome.

A populace that is chloroformed day and night by TV stations like Fox News could do with inoculation by poetry. Obviously, poetry can't be administered like an injection, but it does constitute a boost to the capacity for discrimination and resistance.

SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.