Quotes About Discrimination

But because he had been mostly raised in Asia, he had been completely sheltered from the kind of racism that Asians experienced in America.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them. But they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disaster that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men, I'm not like the other women.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

the first topic that comes to mind is often a woman's right to choose or sexual assault, but I believe the most important women's issue is the wage gap. I believe this is the root issue from which all other inequalities stem . . .

The Northern women who worked for abolition were generally not free of racial prejudice - many female abolition societies refused to allow black members.

One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined "negro" as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.

The male view of why women had to be kept out of the public world was basically that they just weren't up to it.

Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because "girls aren't strong enough to pull teeth.

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

Equality is a lie.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

In short, humans possess no characteristic unique to themselves that can justify differential treatment solely on the basis of species.

Whatever characteristic we identify as possessed only by humans will not be possessed by all humans. Some humans will have the exact same deficiency that we attribute to animals, and although we may not allow such humans to drive cars or attend universities, most of us would shut out the prospect of enslaving such humans, using them as unconsenting subjects in biomedical research, or otherwise using them exclusively as a means to an ends.

The ability to communicate may be relevant to whether we make you the host of a talk show, or give you a job teaching in a university, but it is not relevant to whether we should kill you and remove your organs for transplant into another human, or whether we should enslave you so that you may labor for those without your particular disability.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

An angry crowd of insults ranging from 'no dick' ... through to ... 'you fucking girl', as if a girl was the worst thing you could be and deserving of every conceivable punishment.

Aunque hemos caminado sobre la luna y hemos dividido el átomo, todavía discriminamos y libramos guerras en nombre de la religión. Parece que en nuestras creencias respectivas solo vemos las diferencias, o las verdades comunes. Los árboles no nos dejan ver el bosque.

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

she had little use for separate but so-called equal. My mother understood from her Southern roots a basic principle that still rings true; where there's a white presence, there will be amenities. She wanted grocery stores with quality produce, and roads that got repaired and streeetlights that came on magically at dusk and garbage that got collectd on time.

The FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws," Charles Abrams, the urban studies expert, wrote in 1955, the year my parents arrived in Michigan from Tennessee.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.