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Quotes About Discrimination

If you are rich, it doesn't matter whether you are Hindu or Muslim, that is how a capitalist society works. Take a look, poverty-stricken Muslims are in a similar situation. The rich, be they Hindu or Muslim, are subjugating the poor.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Sudhamoy consoled himself with the thought that it was not about Hindus and Muslims but about the strong torturing the weak whenever possible. Women are weak and so strong men torment them.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Riots mean fights—a conflict between one community and another is called a riot. But we cannot call these riots—these were attacks by one community on another. Torture. Persecution
~ Taslima Nasrin
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these people here with her had to be treated this way. Who had decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.
~ Tavis Smiley
That's your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.
~ Tayari Jones
It was just the wrong race and the wrong time. Police are shady as hell. That's why everybody is locked up.
~ Tayari Jones
You can laugh," she said with angry eyes. "You know how I feel when I'm here? Black and desperate. You don't know what it's like to be standing in the line to get in to see him.
~ Tayari Jones
Nobody around here thought you did it. It was just the wrong race and the wrong time.
~ Tayari Jones
make plus model plus race equaled drug dealer,
~ Tayari Jones
Kodak commercials say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the one they showed of Rodney ain't worth more than three or four. Boy. Black.
~ Tayari Jones
How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?
~ Tayeb Salih
A number of human adolescents have complained that Voyl has more rights than they do; obviously the digients have seen their comments.
~ Ted Chiang
the Europeans often believe paper over people.
~ Ted Chiang
I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.
~ Dani Alves
I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.
~ Kali Uchis
There were lots of Spanish teams who didn't want to sign me because of my height when I was 15, 16 years old.
~ Santi Cazorla
I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.
~ Jessica Williams
Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.
~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
~ Mamata Banerjee
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
~ Neil Tennant
Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.
~ Jessica Williams
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.
~ Walter F. Mondale