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Quotes About Discrimination

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
~ Martine McCutcheon
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the track, you're Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you're in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.
~ Melissa Harris-Perry
The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.
~ Michelle Alexander
I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.
~ Mindy Kaling
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
~ Molly Elliot Seawell
There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.
~ Randy Newman
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
~ Richard Powers
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.
~ Henry Giroux
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.
~ Henry Giroux
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
~ Hillary Clinton
A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.
~ Hillary Clinton
A man of refined taste and judgment.
~ Horace
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
~ Jane Fonda
Stupid f***ing white man.
~ Jim Jarmusch
The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it.
~ Barry Switzer
You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.
~ Lee Trevino
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
~ Don King
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
~ Roy Innis
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
~ Kangana Ranaut
Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.
~ Jerry Falwell
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
~ Ricky Gervais
Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.
~ Zoe Saldana