Quotes About Discrimination

Goddard seemed comfortable with the notion that 40 percent of immigrants were morons. "It is admitted on all sides that we are getting now the poorest of each race

To eliminate feeblemindedness, Goddard rejected the calls of people like McKim to kill the feebleminded. But he did want to make sure they didn't get to have children. And by "they," Goddard mostly meant women.

Goddard conjured up a specter of attractive, feebleminded women wantonly seducing decent men. He warned that the country's reformatories were full of feebleminded girls who "do not conform to the conventions of society," who were "boy crazy" or, worst of all, "preferred the company of colored men to white.

The story of the Kallikaks, Goddard concluded, was a powerful argument for rounding up the feebleminded and putting them in colonies, at least until a better solution could be found.

According to Goddard's standards, 47 percent of the white soldiers and 89 percent of the blacks should be categorized as morons. The average white soldier, the psychologists found, had a mental age of thirteen years, just barely above the cutoff for feeblemindedness. The majority of Americans, in other words, was feebleminded or close to it.

In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.

En esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Decent people are killed slowly in this country. Quick deaths are reserved for scoundrels. They kill people like me by ignoring us, shutting all the doors in our faces and pretending we don't exist.

Porque en esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

She's not evil. Calling all demons evil is like calling all Muslims terrorists. It's racist." Bill holds up his hands, "Oh, well in that case I apologize. She can stay.

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands. And

V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

When someone out there says that I'm not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?

All white people looked similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate between them. On the other hand, all Negroes looked similar to white men but white men did not usually bother to fix the face of a Negro in their minds.

Mick had heard Portia say that before, but she had thought it was a tale. How could a colored man be a doctor?

Jeder hat seine Gefühle – wer es auch ist –, und keiner geht in ein Haus, wo er weiß, dass seine Gefühle verletzt werden. Du auch. Ich hab zu viele Male gesehen, wie weiße Leute dich verletzt haben. Ich weiß das.

De tous les arts, seul le cinéma resta jusqu'à la fin du nazisme un refuge possible pour les Noirs.

sur ce camp comme sur d'autres, on possède d'assez nombreux témoignages anglais sur le racisme américain envers leurs codétenus noirs.

Il accuse les Français, et par dessus tout les Juifs de France, d'avoir suscité l'envoi des Noirs en Allemagne, ce qui lui permet de rassembler les deux groupes dans la même haine7.

Kim sÄ… ci ludzie?- powtarza Herc Szemec. - To ?ydki. Å»ydki, które coÅ› knujÄ…. Wiem, ?e to tautologia.

And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa on Blacks only? In short, no books or other studies in high school and college answered or gave clues to answers to the problems that puzzled me the most.

questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why did we become their slaves in the first place? White children go to fine brick, stone and marble schools nine months a year while we go to a ramshackle old barn-like building only five-and-ahalf months, then to the cotton fields. Why?