Quotes About Discrimination

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

Para mí es un misterio que sigan portándose tan bien después de llevar cien años soportando que les nieguen sistemáticamente que son seres humanos.

In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a Black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly but those are just the facts of life. - Atticus Finch

Why did you run?" "I was scared, suh." "Why were you scared?" "Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared, too.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." "Doesn't

She sat there in front of me and she didn't see me, she saw white folks.

For years and years all that man thought he had that made him any better than his black brothers was the color of his skin. He was just as dirty, he smelled just as bad, he was just as poor.

Why reasonable people go stark mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand...

They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won't have 'em because they're half white; white folks won't have 'em 'cause they're colored, so they're just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere.

Colored folks don't show their ages so fast," she said.

piangerai per la vita d'inferno che la gente costringe altri a fare… senza nemmeno riflettere. Non piangerai per l'inferno in cui i bianchi fanno vivere la gente di colore, senza fermarsi un momento a pensare che sono persone come noi.

Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home

Cry about the hell white people give colored folks

That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford

Cry about what, Mr. Raymond?' Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself. 'Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.

Below her, on rough benches, sat not only most of the trash in Maycomb County, but the county's most respectable men.

It's slipped into usage with somepeople like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody.

The boy stood up. He was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick.

whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Defense, hell! Atticus, we aren't on the Constitution now. I'm trying to make you see something. You now, you treat all people alike. I've never in my life seen you give that insolent, back-of-the-hand treatment half the white people down here give Negroes just when they're talking to them, just when they ask 'em to do something. There's no get-along-there-nigger in your voice when you talk to 'em.

cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man

Maycomb's usual disease. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand …

couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." "Doesn't make it right," said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. "You just can't convict a man on evidence like that—you can't." "You couldn't, but they could and did.