Quotes About Discrimination

Hell was born when some decided others weren't people.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

Am I a man, or a contract? What sort of society decides that special papers are needed even by beggars?

Señor Lam says those Los Angeles riots were one of the largest mass lynchings in United States history. Only ten men were arrested, only four were convicted, and even they will soon be released. No one in that nation ever pays for any crime against people who look different.

At the steamy train station in New Orleans, horrifying signs above drinking fountains announce: COLORED. WHITE. Confused, I drink out of both. Why should it matter if a stream of coo, refreshing water pours into my mouth or another?

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.

Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?

Caucasian privilege lounged and sauntered, draped itself casually about, turned vigilant and commanding, then cunning and devious. We

When he's not lynching you, he's humiliating you, said the men at the dinner table. They

They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

I've been invisible for a long time, and he's been walking the world with all the privilege of being a man.

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

They sent out notices to all the tribal leaders, and they told us we could have whatever we wanted: Prairie Niggers, if the New Jersey team did not object, Redskins, Savages, Warriors, Heathens, Braves, Bucks—and of course the cheerleaders would be the Squaws, unless we wanted to modernize the language and just call them the Cunts. But

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.