Quotes About Discrimination

The general rule is that whoever thinks, sings, acts, and speaks Indian is a skin, a full-blood, and whoever acts and thinks like a white man is a half-blood or breed, no matter how Indian he looks.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

After my sister Sandra was born the doctors there per formed a hysterectomy on my mother, in fact sterilizing her without her permission, which was common at the time, and up to just a few years ago, so that it is hardly worth mentioning. In the opinion of some people, the fewer Indians there are, the better. As Colonel Chivington said to his soldiers: "Kill 'em all, big and small, nits make lice!

The human race has always found a group to marginalize--every culture, every time, every race.

Said Simone de Beauvoir in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex , "Just as in America there is no Negro problem but rather a white problem; just as 'anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it is our problem'; so the women problem has always been a man's problem. . . . Men have always held the lot of women in their hands; and they have determined what it should be, not according to her interest, but rather with regard to their own projects, their fears, and their needs.

There's one rule for the men and another for us,

and certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.

Inferior people often despise those who are different," Adam said calmly. "It's the only way they can feel superior.

Renoir, as it turned out, was also deeply anti-Semitic.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Like almost every other colored person, I couldn't tell the difference because we'd been going through a "depression" all our lives.

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

Beauty is beauty due to the cruelty of selection.

Too often, religions think that unless religious people are allowed special powers and privileges to advance religion and affect the lives of many people outside of church, they are not getting legal equality.

Eugenicists weren't just about propaganda, they catalyzed significant political action. As early as 1896 the state of Connecticut passed a eugenic law according to which anyone who was epileptic, imbecile, or feeble-minded could not obtain a marriage license.

No me sorprendió. Por norma, todas las religiones del mundo discriminaban a las mujeres, bien situándolas en un incomprensible segundo plano o bien legitimando que pudieran ser maltratadas y vejadas. Era algo realmente lamentable a lo que nadie parecía querer encontrar una solución.

Por qué lo que era inteligente para Martín era feo y peligroso para Catalina? Si Martín podía, Catalina podía y yo era Martín y Catalina al tiempo, de donde se infería, aunque costara de entender, que lo que un hombre podía poner en ejecución también podía ponerlo una mujer.

La naturaleza hizo libres a los humanos sin reparar en el color de la piel.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

It's Mississippi, stupid," Neville said. "They can do whatever they like.

Y vivir la segregación en mis carnes? No, gracias. Creo que prefiero quedarme en casa y ser un ignorante.

For those wishing to vacation abroad, the agency could recommend destinations that were relatively free of local race prejudice and, just as important, not overrun by white American tourists—for nothing was more frustrating than traveling thousands of miles only to encounter the same bigots you dealt with every day at home.

The law's not for colored people, not down there .

To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.