Quotes About Discrimination

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

My third lekku set me aside, even among the Twi'lek community on Kalimahr. It invited ridicule. You wouldn't think that, would you? That in a society filled with so many shapes, species, and creeds, a simple extra something with set me apart? - Tre Sana

Additional research tells us that lighter-skinned immigrants, mostly from European nations, earn around 15 percent more than darker-skinned immigrants, even when all their respective qualifications and markers of personal productivity are the same.

This formal system of racial preference was codified from the 1600s until at least the mid-to-late '60s, when the nation passed civil rights legislation, at least theoretically establishing equality in employment, voting, and housing opportunity.

We are still killing black youth because we have not yet killed white supremacy.

The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should "build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven" against immigrants.

Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town.

The guiding principle was the superiority of white, Protestant, native-born Americans over everyone else.

the Klan had "changed its bed sheets for a policeman's uniform.

Murray hated Jews as well. Blacks had some virtues, but Jews had none, in his view.

A Klan mayor ruled Anaheim, California; the city was nicknamed "Klanaheim.

The biggest achievement of the Oregon Klan—the vote by a majority of the people to essentially outlaw Catholic schools in the state—also fell.

To avoid trouble, one large manufacturing company made membership in the Ku Klux Klan a qualification for employment

In Marion County, every major elected official but two was a Klansman.

It came about that American citizens in Indiana were judged by their religion, condemned because of their race, illegally punished because of their opinions, hounded because of their personal conduct, and a state of terror was substituted for a state of law.