Quotes About Discrimination

His jobs in the South were marked by harassment by whites and by his own disdain for what segregation and racism had done to distort the humanity of his fellow blacks, as he saw it.

All these white folks dressed so fine Their ass-holes smell just like mine ...

Fat people weren't supposed to eat anything, but they were especially not supposed to eat confectionery

Male privilege is, in a word, violence.

The differences in the way men and women are treated are real. And the fact is this difference in treatment has no basis in the differences between men and women. I was the same person, and I was treated entirely differently. I got real interested in feminist theory--real fast.

She has told me that what she found most destructive about minority-group psychology "is that one comes to share the conviction of the majority: that one is less able, less intelligent, less educable, less worthy of responsibility." My sentiments, exactly.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

The Municipal Councils in these areas excluded Chinese members, and the police and civil servants were foreigners. Even the names of the streets reflected foreign imperialism—such as Jessfield Road, on which St. Faith's was located.

And I will no longer have any dealings with Jews, except for the receipt of money.

He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.

So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter.

Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, Well, I might not be much, but at least I'm not a... I'd look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.

And Sam? Well, she's not even human, so she doesn't count." "Excuse me?" Sam said. "Face it, you're not one of those bendo-things. You're a robot. A cyborg. Probably an evil one, programmed to murder us all in our sleep." Corey snickered. "Yeah?" Sam lifted a fist to Hayley. "You want to try that one again, blondie?" Hayley looked at Daniel and me. "I rest my case.

Rafe took his time, still checking out the room. He gestured at a pile of textbooks on the floor. "What's he use those for? Weight lifting?" "If you showed up in class more often, you wouldn't be asking that. Daniel's not a dumb jock." "No kidding." He leaned over to read the titles. "Pre-law? Please tell me those belong to his older brothers.

A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom.

It was unladylike even to know the name of your lawyer, let alone to understand your rights under the law. No wonder women were mercilessly exploited.

They're Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,' Dave said. 'But they're Negroes when they want to buy the house next door to yours.

A woman's life was a house of closed doors: she could not be an apprentice, she could not study at the university, she could not be a priest or a physician, or shoot a bow or fight with a sword, and she could not marry without submitting herself to the tyranny of her husband.

They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown was only a few minutes

A family of Jews were showing their tickets at the head of the gangplank. All Jews wanted to go to America, in Grigori's experience. They had even more reason than he did. In Russia there were laws forbidding them to own land, to enter the civil service, to be army officers, and countless other prohibitions. They could not live where they liked, and there were quotas limiting the number who could go to universities. It was a miracle any of them made a living.

Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings.

Fascism blames problems on a false cause—people of other races.

Un americano blanco puede orbitar alrededor de la Tierra, pero un americano negro no puede entrar en un lavabo.»

Al negro de raza la arruga no amenaza»