Quotes About Discrimination

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Visibility is not equality.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

Equality is a mortuary word.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.