Quotes About Discrimination

The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.

Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.

The victims of highway building tended to be overwhelmingly poor and black.

The U.S. still confines a higher proportion of its citizens than any other country, and no other nation, in law professor Michelle Alexander's words, "incarcerates such an astonishing percentage of its racial or ethnic minorities.

Although African Americans are usually no more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, 40 percent of state death row populations are African American. In some states, like Pennsylvania, 60 percent of the death row population is African American. On federal death row, over 60 percent are from communities of color.

As French novelist and essayist Jean Genet once wrote about prison, "it is in this place that racism reaches its cruelest pitch . . . in this place that racism becomes a kind of concentrate of racism.

The death penalty is almost universally a punishment for the poor, for those without the money to get competent counsel. The adage remains true about the death penalty: "Those without the capital get the punishment.

Structural racism works—if I could summarize all too briefly—by stereotyping peoples and then routinizing socially experienced outcomes that are violent and destructive, often exposing members of racially-marked groups to slow or sudden death.

I cite here, again, Gilmore's definition: "Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Secondly, what is overlooked by the rhetoric of "mostly blacks and Hispanics" are those prisoners who are Arab-American, A/AAPI, or American Indian. Even

Even the rising number of poor whites being swept into prison by corporate dispossession and profiteering today are often "blackened," in the sense of being marked in the eyes of the larger society as "transgressive" and in some of the ways often meted out to persons of color. In

The prisons of today preserve and display the way the black-white antithesis has been deployed in white supremacist logic and persists as a dominant structure. That is to say, in today's prisons an "anti-black white racism" constitutes a white supremacist order of power deployed against all non-white groups. In

White youth also often receive extensive assistance as well as tolerance when they develop drug problems. In contrast, blacks, Latinos/as, and Arab- and Southeast Asian-Americans among the stigmatized poor are without such counseling services and often simply hustled off to jail. It

This is how planet Earth earned its shameful reputation of undervaluing people by ethnicity, religion, gender, and whatnot. At some point man's impression was labeled the voice of God. But man's impression always contained the blind flaw of humanness.

They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.