Quotes About Discrimination

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.