Quotes About Discrimination

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.

It was in the spring of 1939 that Hitler finally set in motion a "racial hygiene" policy that he had wanted to pursue for many years, namely the systematic killing of those who were mentally or physically disabled. He made his intentions clear in an address to the Nuremberg Rally tenyears earlier when he had argued that if of the million or so children born each year in Germany 70,000 to 80,000 of the weakest were removed, the nation would be made correspondingly stronger.

Once the means to kill children had been established, it was only a matter of months before the programme was extended to include adults living in asylums or other such institutions.

Some people have a great fashion of calling things they do not like yellow. You exclude the yellow man. You fear the yellow peril. I edit a white paper turned out by yellow men, and many white men turn out yellow papers.

Los ignorantes odian lo que desconocen, pero además en la historia de Europa hay momentos execrables: La Inquisición, los pogromos... El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad. Ésa es la excusa que utilizan los poderosos para desvia la atención de sus responsabilidades hacia la propia sociedad.

El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad.

She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

People should not feel that they are not Indians because they don't understand Hindi.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.