Quotes About Discrimination

Discrimination could show itself in exceedingly rank ways. Hotels with signs that stated No Jews Allowed were commonplace, and one hotel advertised with the slogan, Always A View, Never A Jew.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

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

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

Gwen thinks Lazar disrespected her because she's black. And look I mean you're aware of my policy when it comes to that kind of situation. Your policy is 'What do I know about being black?' What do I know about being black?...

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

No human difference matters much until it becomes a privilege, until it becomes the basis for oppression. Power is the vector that turns minor into major.

If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.

Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's