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Quotes About Discrimination

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize
~ Michael M. Honda
Racism is a disease of white people
~ Albert Einstein
Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.
~ Mary Buckham, Invisible Magic
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
~ Stanley Crouch
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.
~ Lee De Forest
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
~ Toni Morrison
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
~ Tim Cook
Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.
~ Unknown
Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.
~ Jessica Sorensen
Love to learn every noble soul without hesitation, without expectation and without discrimination.
~ Chanda Kaushik
Sometimes you are afraid of so many things, afraid of getting hurt, afraid of losing, and failing, afraid of discrimination and lastly afraid of being left behind till there's nothing left except you.
~ Unknown
Why do some people think being gay 'is a choice' are you f*cking kidding me? Like one day people just decide, from now on I'm going to be gay...
~ Unknown
Death does not discriminate; Some die old, some at 8. So remember during all your grief, our visit here is very brief.
~ Unknown
I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.
~ Unknown
It is quite likely that this Jewish community, like any other, perhaps more than any other, could boast of many charms, qualities, and virtues. The enjoyment of these, however, was restricted to its members. The fact was they were disliked; and this, once they became aware of it, became a proof in their eyes of anti-Semitism, against which they ranged themselves in a dense phalanx, closing ranks in the face of a world that was, in any case, of no mind to join their group.
~ Marcel Proust
anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.
~ Unknown
Dijo Pep: "Todos sois iguales es la mentira más grande que existe en el deporte. No todos son iguales, ni todos deben ser tratados iguales".
~ Unknown
Religious lobbyists have used the "secularism" and "discrimination" arguments to cover their voracious and seemingly insatiable demands to obtain rights to act however they choose. They "need" legislatures to help them, because they are so weak and so discriminated against, or at least that is their shtick.
~ Unknown
Congress also kicked around a constitutional amendment in 2004, the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) (formerly known as the Federal Marriage Amendment), which would have banned all gay marriages in the United States.18 It is a classic example of elected representatives using religion and religion only to justify a law. Representative
~ Unknown
We lost because American justice is distorted by race. We lost because American justice is corrupted by celebrity.
~ Marcia Clark
Somebody said (but if it were not said, then I say it now), that " the laws of our civilization have but one interpretation for the poor and ignorant and for those of wealth and power, there are many interpretations, hence the poor are generally convicted on the one, while the rich are freed on the many interpretations.
~ Marcus Garvey
Cooper said nothing. "Jesus." Quinn rubbed at his eyes. "Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up.
~ Marcus Sakey