Quotes About Discrimination

I learned a strange thing - that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word n***** always leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and always it stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance.

One can scarcely conceive the full horror of it unless one is a parent who takes a close look at his children and then asks himself how he would feel if a group of men should come to his door and tell him they had decided - for reasons of convenience to them - that his children's lives would henceforth be restricted, their world smaller, their educational opportunities less, their future mutilated

There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

Elliot told me that bigots could be "slippery" if you accused them outright.

There was more than a hint of distaste in Roberta's references to homosexuals, and Garp thought it strange that people in the process of making a decision that will plant them firmly in a minority, forever, are possibly less tolerant of other minorities than we might imagine.

Davis was especially scored for allegedly favoring foreigners and Jews in his administration.

Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.