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Quotes About Discrimination

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.
~ Valerie Solanas
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
~ Lance Loud
We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.
~ Charlotte Bunch
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.
~ Michele Bachmann
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
~ Alex Hay
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
~ Alice Hamilton
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
~ Marlo Thomas
Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.
~ Michelle Alexander
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
~ Patricia Schroeder
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
~ Ishmael Reed
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
~ Aeschylus
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
~ Andre Gide
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
~ Andy Rooney
It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.
~ Anna Wintour
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~ Barbra Streisand
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
~ Bill Cosby
I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.
~ Duff Cooper
As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)
~ Terry Deary
Una tale uguaglianza in cui scompaiono le differenze favorisce nascostamente la disuguaglianza.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Linguistic and educational relativism helps to transform a class into a caste – a caste, almost, of Untouchables.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
It has often been said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools; it would be more accurate to say that socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals...
~ Theodore Dalrymple