Quotes About Discrimination

Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

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

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.