Quotes About Discrimination

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Age might add to a man's power, but it stole from a woman's

No, Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women.

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

The 1927 Supreme Court ruling that allowed Carrie Buck to be forcibly sterilized gave every state the green light to continue or begin sterilizing those deemed unfit to produce children, all in the name of "race betterment.

Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.

After the business at hand was completed, the head of the board, a lawyer named Isidore Dockweiler, turned to Jones and asked her to resign. As Jones sat dumbfounded, Dockweiler explained that the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library. He

and the hot topic: age.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

It didn't occur to me that they would never take my gender and age seriously-- that as long as I was a young woman, they projected their sexual feelings on me, regardless of what I did.