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Quotes About Discrimination

The treatment meted out to women is the same everywhere.
~ Kirron Kher
Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the system denies our humanity. It denies us patient care.
~ Cori Bush
Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.
~ Maggie Williams
NAFTA was conceived to avoid discrimination against goods. A U.S.-Mexico treaty on immigration should be devised to prevent discrimination against people.
~ Denise Dresser
There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.
~ Rupert Everett
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
~ Fred Korematsu
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
It is a travesty that I have to stand trial because I spoke about fewer Moroccans.
~ Geert Wilders
Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, said that Muslims have first right over the resources of this country. Where will the Dalits, backward, women, tribal, and others go?
~ Yogi Adityanath
If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.
~ Alex Haley
I like girls that aren't too bright because you can trick 'em a little bit.
~ Cris Collinsworth
We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter
~ Genereux Philip
Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world
~ Sunday Adelaja
Prejudice is an act of violence.
~ Kamand Kojouri
How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.
~ Peter Gleick
I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.
~ Jon Stewart
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
~ Charles de Lint
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
~ Eileen Atkins
I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog
~ Zach Braff
The building was built to appeal to snobs
~ Stephen Birmingham
When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in 'normal' French, as if the language they speak in francophone Canada is so barbarous that Parisians won't be able to understand
~ Stephen Clarke
They were white, because the U.S. Army in World War II was segregated. With three exceptions, they were unmarried. Most had been hunters and athletes in high school.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose