Quotes About Discrimination

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

Educators worried that they might encourage women to pursue math and science who would then be left high and dry. One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

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these always paid less than men's jobs did.

If the Navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, certain of the older admirals would probably have greatly preferred them to women," Gildersleeve acidly remarked later. The

One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

Some times the best place to hide... is in other peoples prejudices

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

Anxiety bites. He's judging her. Judging her whole stupid, conservative, privileged, white family—she can see it, feel it.

The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

It's like gender trumps ideas

The heart of racism was and is economic, though its roots and results are also deeply cultural, psychological, sexual, religious, and, of course, political. Due to 246 years of brutal slavery and an additional 100 years of legal segregation and discrimination, no area of the relationship between black and white people in the United States is free from the legacy of racism.

Privilege is something else. Privilege is a judgment. Privilege is an opinion. Privilege is an accusation.

Years ago, if a white woman said a Black man looked at her lustfully, he could be hung higher than a magnolia tree in bloom, while a white mob watched joyfully sipping tea and eating cookies," Yusef Salaam's mother reminded readers of the Amsterdam News.

pero ¿puede entrar en el ánimo del gobierno eliminar la locura? No. ¿Y si el gobierno no la puede eliminar, está al menos apto para discriminarla y reconocerla? Tampoco. Ello es materia de la ciencia. Por lo tanto, en asunto tan melindroso, el gobierno no puede, no debe, no quiere dispensar el concurso de vuestra merced. Lo que le pide es que arbitremos un medio para contentar al pueblo.

That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.

You say you don't see color…but that's all you see. You're so hyperaware of it, and of trying to look like you aren't prejudiced, you can't even understand that when you say race doesn't matter all I hear is you dismissing what I've felt, what I've lived, what it's like to be put down because of the color of my skin.