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Quotes About Discrimination

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
~ J. Nozipo Maraire
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
~ Paul Farmer
Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
~ Lois Capps
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
~ Robert Kennedy
When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
~ Claudio Magris
The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.
~ Julius Streicher
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
~ Bobby Fischer
There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.
~ Marc Lamont Hill
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.
~ Michelle Alexander
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.
~ Denis Kearney
A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.
~ Nat Hentoff
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
~ Strom Thurmond
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179
~ William Shakespeare
It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.
~ Marissa Meyer, Cinder
I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.
~ Heinrich Himmler
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
~ Langston Hughes
Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.
~ Franny Billingsley
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
~ Mahatma Gandhi