Quotes About Discrimination

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

All women are inferior to men.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.