Quotes About Discrimination

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

Racist writing is a craft failure.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

When guys say that girls should be confident, they need to realize that we live in a society where we get called fat for not being 100lbs...

If this world would stop discriminating and start seeing that everyone is different in their own ways then this world wouldn't be so messed up as it is. Everyone is unique. It takes mature people to accept that

Not all young people are violent thugs/x factor loving zombies. I'm fed up of being generalised.

When I was four they tried to test my IQ. They showed me a picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.

Atau mereka menganggap, memang beginilah bangsa kulit putih, yang merasa lebih tinggi dan lebih baik dari bangsa kulit berwarna mana pun ?

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

Fifteen days after we are born, we begin to discriminate between colors. For the rest of our lives, barring blunted or blinded sight, we find ourselves face-to-face with all these phenomena at once, and we call the whole shimmering mess "color." You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the world. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

Once something is no longer illicit, punishable, pathologized, or used as lawful basis for raw discrimination or acts of violence, that phenomenon will no longer be able to represent or deliver on subversion, the subcultural, the underground, the fringe, in the same way

If there's one thing homonormativity reveals, it's the troubling fact that you can be victimized and in no way be radical; it happens very often among homosexuals as with every other oppressed minority.

ear, 'did you know that two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people?

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

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility — which I do.

And the female brain,' said the holy man, 'is incapable of grasping the first principles of geometry.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.