Quotes About Discrimination

No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

But hatreds of large groups of people must have been the most valuable of all. I could barely imagine the prize earned by the person who managed to inculcate in all blond, blue-eyed people a long-lasting hatred of dark ones.

They're all blackface caricatures.

He had no skills or smarts or education to distinguish him, which made him just the sort to be taken with the notion that he belonged to a master race

No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

For the same work, dudes get paid more.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

Employment stereotypes you

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.