Quotes About Discrimination

Lexie's gaze slid back to the words Animal Farm and a smile crawled across her face. All pigs are created equal, she recalled. But some pigs are more equal than others.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Privilege resists self-examination, but exclusion does not.

All of us recognize variation within our own gender, party, ethnicity, or nation, but we are inclined to generalize about people in other categories and lump them all together as them. This habit starts awfully early.

A stereotype might bend or even shatter under the weight of disconfirming information, but the hallmark of prejudice is that it is impervious to reason, experience, and counterexample.

The downside is that stereotypes flatten out differences within the category we are looking at and exaggerate differences between categories.

Was sind das für Konstellationen in der Gegenwart, in denen zufällige oder angeborene Unterschiede ausgesucht werden, um daran soziale Anerkennung oder gar Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zu koppeln?

Quando havia um conflito, quem ia preso era o negro. E muitas vezes o negro estava apenas olhando. Os soldados não podiam prender os brancos, então prendiam os pretos. Ter uma pele branca era um escudo, um salvo-conduto.

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

Skeçler yaz?p sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yaz?k ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. K?v?rc?k saçlar?mla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiÄŸimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlar?n? beyazlar?nkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlar?m?z daha uysald?r, istediÄŸimiz yerde kal?r. Beyazlar?nki ise en küçük bir baÅŸ hareketinde yer deÄŸiÅŸir.

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

The niggers, who else?" He sounded disappointed. "We had to show them who was boss, you see. There was this Belgian captain. He used Negro heads as decorations around his flower bed. To each his own.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

In the schools of business administration Negroes are trained exclusively in the psychology and economics of Wall Street and are, therefore, made to despise the opportunities to run ice wagons, push banana carts, and sell peanuts among their own people. Foreigners, who have not studied economics but have studied Negroes, take up this business and grow rich.

By their peculiar "reasoning," too, theologians have sanctioned most of the ills of the ages. They justified the Inquisition, serfdom, and slavery. Theologians of our time defend segregation and the annihilation of one race by the other. They have drifted away from righteousness into an effort to make wrong seem to be right.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

This was especially true of the law schools, closed during the wave of legislation against the Negro, at the very time the largest possible number of Negroes needed to know the law for the protection of their civil and political rights. In other words, the thing which the patient needed most to pass the crisis was taken from him that he might more easily die.

The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro, and in most of the Negro colleges and universities where the Negro is thought of, the race is studied only as a problem or dismissed as of little consequence.

From the teaching of science the Negro was likewise eliminated. The beginnings of science in various parts of the Orient were mentioned, but the Africans' early advancement in this field was omitted.

This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?