Quotes About Discrimination

We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it.

Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. 'Wir sind kein Negervolk' ('We are not blacks') the fiery former concentration-camp inmate told Annan.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Sexism interfered with profits.

When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, "Is this an attempt to reduce someone's humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?

I'm white and everything is made for me." A black female student said, "I'm straight. I can hold hands with my boyfriend without fearing violence." Another student said, "I'm a Christian. I can wear my cross necklace to school and no one calls me a terrorist." A

All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.

All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion

Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for ways that are darkAnd for tricks that are vain,The heathen Chinee is peculiar,Which the same I would rise to explain.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.

Een panter is anders dan een aap', zei Gerard, na een pauze, 'maar is een van de twee minder dan de ander? Dat vind je een idiote vraag, en je hebt gelijk. Blijf dat nou net zo idioot vinden, wanneer het mensen betreft. Anders zijn - dat is gewoon. Iedereen is anders dan een ander. Ik ben ook anders dan jij. Maar minder of meer zijn door de kleur van je gezicht of door wat je vader is - dat is nonsens.

Indeed, if this woman had lived in the reign of James the First, her appearance alone would have hanged her, almost without any evidence.

He stood there smiling; then at last he put into two words — "Do YOU?" — more discrimination than I had ever heard two words contain.

The way certain classes arrogate to themselves the title of the people has never pleased me. Why are some human beings the people, and the people only, and others not? I am of the people myself, I have worked all my days like a knife-grinder, and I have really never changed.

For some reason, a lot of folks seem to think that until very recently every Southern politician would go home at night, wait for it to get dark, take a white sheet out of his closet, and then go tearing around the countryside, burning crosses and raising hell.

It's fairly easy to hate a racial or ethnic group in the abstract, but it's a different story when you start dealing with individuals.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.