Quotes About Discrimination

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Women are good for 70 things, sandwiches and 69.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.

The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.

I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your bi... a.. back in the kitchen and make me some pie!

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.