Quotes About Discrimination

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

Ethnic minority groups and HCWs will likely be targets of discrimination. We will see a proliferation of conspiracy theories. Someone or some organization or agency will be blamed, rightly or wrongly. The news media will sensationalize the pandemic, despite admonishments to engage in more balanced reporting. Unfounded rumors and fake news will spread rapidly throughout the Internet. Heath authorities will struggle to contain rumors and to debunk conspiracy theories.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

You have to remember we are in a part of the world where prejudice and injustice against women is high.

I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised

Race is the modality in which class is lived.

Racism is a by-product of ignorance,

We aren't rednecks. We're European. Big difference.

little bigotty kind of people.

WHEN TRAMPS and hoboes would come to their door for food, the southern white people would drive them away. But if a Negro come, they will feed him. They'll even give them money. They'll ask them: Do you smoke, do you dip snuff? Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'. They was always nice in a nasty way to Negroes. But their own color, they wouldn't do that for 'em.

one more person ask me if i knew the hijackers. one more motherfucker ask me what navy my brother is in. one more person assume no arabs or muslims were killed. one more person assume they know me, or that i represent a people. or that a people represent an evil. or that evil is as simple as a flag and words on a page.

It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.

So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.

The culture of Minnesota Nice has meant that the face of discrimination has almost always been much more subtle here. But the kind of subtlety that underlies Minnesota Nice—extreme and highly nuanced—only makes racism harder to fight.

Black exists only because America is White.

In Los Angeles from 1940 to 1945, the white population rose less than 20 percent, while the black population increased nearly 110 percent. Yet only 5 percent of the city's residential areas allowed blacks.