Quotes About Discrimination

One [cop] said he'd enjoyed the fracas. "Them queers have a good sense of humor and really had a good time," he said. His "buddy" protested: "Aw, they're sick. I like nigger riots better because there's more action, but you can't beat up a fairy. They ain't mean like blacks, they're sick. But you can't hit a sick man.

One police officer tried to pick a fight with passing gay men by repeatedly challenging them, saying, "Start something, faggot; just start something. I'd like to break your ass wide open." When one man finally turned and said, "What a Freudian comment, Officer!" the cop attacked the man and arrested him, placing him in a patrol wagon to be taken to jail.

Pooling people in race silos is akin to zoologists grouping raccoons, tigers, and okapis on the basis that they are all stripey." 8

And who would choose to be gay? Who would choose to pit themselves against all odds and make life as difficult as possible if it were really a matter of choice or sexual "preference"? Not too many people I know.

Why do people feel the need to put labels on people?

It is the Jews and not us that everyone is against," he wrote. "If the Jews would keep their silly mouths shut they could buy up the whole country.

And, for the everyday party members, it was, as the cheerful rhyme of the time went, 'Wenn die Olympiade vorbei, schlagen wir die Juden zu Brei' – 'When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp'. It was open season again.

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The racist denigration of the savage, and naive celebration of savage innocence, are always treated as two sides of the same imperialist coin.

We modern-day humans tend to exaggerate our differences. The results of such exaggeration are often catastrophic. Between war, slavery, imperialism and sheer day-to-day racist oppression, the last several centuries have seen so much human suffering justified by minor differences in human appearance that we can easily forget just how minor these differences really are.

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

Which begs the question: how many degrees of separation are there between an anti-Semite and a politically correct anti-Christian?

One of their best customers was an executive at Texaco, and one day Harry Ferkauf casually asked him about the possibility of a summer job for his son. "Harry, you know how I feel about you and Gene," the man replied, "but Texaco doesn't hire Jews." From that day Gene Ferkauf knew that if he was to be a success, he would have to do it on his own; the world's great companies were not interested in the likes of him.

Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet but from moral standards as well.

this is what its saying: any criticism of someone who happens to be Jewish... for almost any reason, is anti-semitic

It is not uncommon for black athletes, particularly those who are demonstrative, animated, and passionate, to be called out as selfish, mean, destructive, crazy, difficult, and otherwise not good teammates.

the one who hates men who…" "…hate women.

Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.

For dehumanization to occur the target group must first be essentialized. They, the others, must be seen as a distinct kind of person: not just superficially different, but radically so. This pattern is borne out by all of the cases of dehumanization that have been surveyed so far in this book.

n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master's arm, and have a strap placed around his neck, in imitation of a sheep or cow, and in eighteenth-century Britain, goldsmiths advertised silver padlocks "For blacks or dogs.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being