Quotes About Discrimination

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.