Quotes About Discrimination

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields." [ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]

Let all rich people should also wear virus protection mask round the clock , why only poor and lower middle class.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Intersectionality To the strange folk wandering through the byways of Agenda 21, intersectionality (an ugly word if ever I saw one – as, incidentally, are many of the words created by and for the Agenda 21 disciples) is the theory that as individuals we are discriminated against and oppressed by social identities such as race, sex and class. (They never mention age, of course, because old people don't count.)

society in which anyone over the age of 40 is regarded as worthless and disposable.

There's a thousand different ways a group of people can make someone in their midst feel unwanted.

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

Along with racism and sexism, our society has a hidden hierarchy based on what you do for money.

Along with racism and sexism, our society has a form of caste system based on what you do for money. We call that jobism, and it pervades our interactions with one another on the job, in social settings and even at home. Why else would we consider housewives second-class citizens? Or teachers lower status than doctors even though their desk-side manner with struggling students is far better than many doctors' bedside manner with the ill and dying?

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".