Quotes About Discrimination

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

There's a difference between bad bi...es and ghetto bi...es.

A butch talks dirty to a women and its sexual harassement. A women talks dirty to a butch and its $3.95 a min.

Ha sexism! Dont get me started. Nothing in this world makes me more angry than seeing women being treated like a object!Too common nowadays!

If the majority of Americans were gay, people would get beat up for being straight.

What kinda world is this where people don't let you in for being pretty?

There's a difference between being a whore, and being pretty.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

People don't always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I'm afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)

You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily

Japanese American, she corrected me. Not Japanese. And Vietnamese American, not Vietnamese. You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

We're all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily enough, I had never felt inferior because of my race during my foreign student days. I was foreign by definition and therefore was treated as a guest. But now, even though I was a card-carrying American with a driver's license, Social Security card, and resident alien permit, Violet still considered me as foreign, and

And even if we are inscrutable, what does that make white people? Are white people ever referred to as inscrutable? No, you would say that a white person who is hard to read has a poker face, which has a positive connotation, a strategic one, suggesting a careful withholding of information, whereas we are just inscrutable because you white people believe that we always have something to hide

Racist love is still racist.

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't.

Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere.