Quotes About Discrimination

My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.