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Quotes About Discrimination

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.
~ Michael Steele
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?
~ Andrej Pejic
A slave is but half a man.
~ Aristophanes
Jewish men don't know anything.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.
~ Michael Baden
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
~ Josh Billings
Men are allowed to get older and women are not.
~ Shirley Knight
Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.
~ Ted Nugent
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
~ Courtney Love
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be 'Mad Men,' treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.
~ Alison Lundergan Grimes
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
~ Anthony Braxton
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
~ Stephen Malkmus
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
~ Alan Ball
Woman is the lesser man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
~ Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
~ Ann Beattie
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
~ Beyonce Knowles
When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.
~ Carly Fiorina
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
~ Carolyn Maloney