Quotes About Discrimination

America didn't want any of us, and you haven't felt unwanted until America doesn't want you.

Despite never once being cited by HR for discriminatory practices, or being known as a sexist, Google fired James for sharing his paper. Not only was James fired but he was publicly shamed for reporting on existing research, research which to any reasonable observer, is non-controversial. James made the ultimate mistake. He failed to understand the request for feedback was an empty one, that critical consideration of all sides of an argument was undesirable, even anathema to the cause.

According to this complaint, which I was never allowed to see, I harassed African Americans and women to the point that they were unable to do their job.

Be afraid of bombs on the metro. Be afraid of bombs on airplanes. Be afraid of mass murders lurking in the dark. Oh, but don't be afraid of the wrong people (brown and/or Muslim) because if you do, you become worse than the terrorists... you become a racist.

The PJC quoted the Confession of 1967: "Congregations, individuals, or groups of Christians who exclude, dominate, or patronize their fellowmen [sic], however subtly, resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith which they profess.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

became a swellhead, a wise guy, an "uppity" nigger. When a white player did it, he had spirit. When a black player did it, he was "ungrateful," an upstart, a

There was a popular saying once that in the North the white man didn't care how close the black man came if he didn't climb too high, and in the South the white man didn't care how high the black man climbed if he didn't come too close.

Did not the manager of the Fresh Air Fund write to the pastor of an Italian Church only last year{9} that "no one asked for Italian children," and hence he could not send any to the country?

In downtown Greenville, they painted over the WHITE ONLY signs, except on the bathroom doors, they didn't use a lot of paint so you can still see the words, right there like a ghost standing in front still keeping you out.

But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.

In the stores downtown we're always followed around just because we're brown.

Tories rated their colleagues according to which public school they went to; for Labour members the proudest boast was to have been the son of a miner.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Look at me all flesh and bones, head, arms, and legs, do you see a Monkey in my human flesh, and bones, because I am Black. Oh No No, said the Monkey, I don't talk."

Mexican right-wing talk radio wants a fence built on their southern border to keep out those damned Hondurans and Salvadorans and Guatemalans. I heard a radio host in Guadalajara decry these "aliens." It seems Hondurans want to take Mexican jobs. Want to steal health care, get an education. They don't share the proper language, and they carry disease and lower the standard of living and want to steal social security benefits. Rushito Limbortinez in the house!

They couldn't sweat him, no matter what they did. Hey, they were gringos—no way were they going to do the kind of things to him the Mexican cops and the Federales would have done. Every Mexican gangster knows this—Los Yunaites is the land of human rights

A border cop confessed: "I have a rule now. If it don't speak English, shoot it.

Ese hombre de cabellos blancos y escasos, de bigotillo recortado, que empujaba a sus dos chicas hacia el auto, era ejemplo de la sociedad estúpida, hueca e inofensiva, que no admitía alternar, en un sitio de borrachos, con otras gentes, por el solo hecho de que su embriaguez la producía el Tequila y no la Champaña

The chief trouble with religion has been too much dependence upon names or words. People fail to discriminate. They do not think. Generally people who think for themselves, instead of thinking according to the rules laid down by others, are considered unfaithful to the established order. In that respect I, too, differ with the established order and established designations.

En México, a las mujeres que denuncian les queda claro que el ministerio público no les cree, que no es su defensor y que está a favor del agresor. Estas actitudes producen un ciclo de revictimización de la denunciante y siente mucho temor porque percibe que no se valora la injusticia que se cometió en su contra. El Estado promueve la denuncia del delito y luego maltrata a la víctima.