Quotes About Discrimination

anti-Semitism became ever more palatable and popular among their German neighbors over the years.

we found that the longer the survivors had remained in Germany, the more likely they were to have had their homes and businesses vandalized; to have been spied upon by their German neighbors, coworkers, and fellow classmates; and to have suffered verbal taunts and threats from German civilians.

Thus, although both Jews and non-Jews often violated Nazi laws in a number of minor ways, the Nazi authorities would usually look aside in most cases involving non-Jewish offenders while proceeding ruthlessly in nearly all cases involving Jewish offenders.

While only a handful of the thousands of non-Jews who took our survey had ever been sent to jail, taken into protective custody, or sent to a concentration camp even though the majority had committed illegal acts during the Third Reich, great numbers of the Jewish respondents

non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia

As Georges Clemenceau, reporting on Reconstruction for a French newspaper, observed after the war, "Any Democrat who did not manage to hint that the negro is a degenerate gorilla would be considered lacking in enthusiasm."57

If you excel, you will be "remarkable for being an Indian." If you fail, you will be "no surprise because you're an Indian." Every observation in between extremes will be framed, even

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

If the ego is to attain a condition of tranquillity in which to exercise discrimination, consciousness and the differentiated function must be as far removed as possible from the active field of emotional components. All differentiated functions are liable to be disturbed by them, but the disturbance is most evident in the case of thinking, which is by nature opposed to feeling and even more to emotionality.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Now, for solid historical reasons, I'm not comfortable with dividing people up into groups.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

You... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

Professors are allowed to teach homosexuality, Marxism (a secular religion), and anti-Americanism, but mention God and you're out of a job.

EDUCATION IS A RIGHT! NOT JUST FOR THE RICH AND WHITE!" they chanted, ignoring that the majority of those in the UC system are not white, and that there are more Asian Americans than whites on UC campuses.

At the university level, this perspective is commonplace – and that leads to ideological discrimination.