Quotes About Discrimination

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition, Inspector.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

Just because of an unusual genetic abnormality, Hollywood thinks it can portray us as dysfunctional social pariahs. Ask yourself this: Have you ever been, or know anyone who has ever been, a victim of albino crime?" The protest follows hot on the heels of last week's demonstrations when Colombians and men with ponytails complained of being unrelentingly portrayed as drug dealers. —Extract from The Mole, July 31, 2003

I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

Why is it that fancy hotels always locate the rooms that are supposed to be accessible to folks in wheelchairs and walkers at the end of the hall as far from the elevators as possible? And why is it those rooms are always the ones with the worst views?

Never, shrieked Paul, would he consent to meet the "filthy Jew": he was coming along tomorrow at the appointed hour to slap his face.

He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

The English are serial racists--one group gets accepted, another group becomes the scapegoat.

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.

Toplum kad?nlar? topal b?rak?r ve onlar? sakat yaratm?? olan sanki Tanr?, DoÄŸa ya da genetik faktörlermiÅŸ gibi davran?r.

To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.

From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were drawn to me, people would see what this girl had first responded to. They wouldn't see me, the would see the slanted - eye face, the Oriental.

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

He had become a man without a country. The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty-five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. He was suddenly a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy.

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.