Quotes About Discrimination

That wouldn't include my people. They don't count us, Henry.

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

And the white guy, I just barely got a look at him. They all sort of look alike anyway. All I notice is freckles and sunburn.

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

There are some days that prove that it's a man's world and we women are only here as visitors.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

There is a difference in claiming for victim hood and standing up and saying the plain field is not level.

I don't disagree with all of what you do," he said, "but I think it's entirely unjust that you receive checks from the government for your homosexuality." I stared at him with my mouth full of fries. "Oh, it's not that bad," I said, "I only get half as much because I'm bisexual.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

You can do and say everything exactly the same as everyone else, but if there's one thing different about you, that's all they care about." "I assume so," Peril said. "I've never actually tried acting like other dragons." "Well, it doesn't work," he said. Something was glowing in his eyes, an old, old anger. "Trust me. You still end up banished from your own home.

visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

like the way visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

It made no sense. Why would a different wing shape, or a slightly different scale color, or antennae, make one dragon superior and another dragon worth nothing?

Pass on the priveleged, piss on the rest.

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

the stigma of severe mental illness leads to prejudice and discrimination. Stigmas are negative and erroneous attitudes about these persons. Unfortunately, stigma's impact on a person's life may be as harmful as the direct effects of the disease. Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1999). Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. American Psychologist, 54(9), 765–776.

Increasingly, what people with AIDS share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain racial identity. They do not share sexual preference or an absolute income bracket. What they share, rather, is a social position—the bottom rung of the ladder in inegalitarian societies.

His fellow German socialist and labor organizer Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx referred to as a "greasy Jew," "the little kike," "water-polack Jew," "Jew Braun," "Yid," "Izzy," "Wily Ephraim," "Baron Itzig," and "the Jewish Nigger.

Which brings us back to the nostalgia thing. There are, let's face it, some people in our political life who pine for the days when minorities and women knew their place, gays stayed firmly in the closet, and congressmen asked, "Are you now or have you ever been?

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

the combination of killing, mutilation, and mass forced disappearance—was targeted directly at the students for being radical, organized, poor; rural and indigenous students of a school noted for its anti-government organizing

This Mexican hospitality to gringos is in ironic contrast to the present ubiquity of Mexicans who are demonized and fenced in, stamped as undesirable, considered suspect, and unwelcome in America.