Quotes About Discrimination

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.

They controlled it so tight -- they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance of the year.

They think there are only two kinds of young women in China: good girls or prostitutes.

Locked in my invisible cage, I am living proof of human rights violations, and I'm not even human

So entrenched is our fictional image of Gypsies that we often brush aside real-world experiences as a mirage when they contradict the picture that we have absorbed and internalized.

Until now we've discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you'll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just "us and "them", and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

meanings" of the Bible so many people point to in their attempts to oppress other people.

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

That has excluded those who are unable to fulfill that prescription due to their sexual orientation.

It's not that there are no differences between human and non-human animals, any more than there are no differences between black people and white people, freeborn citizens and slaves, men and women, Jews and gentiles, gays or heterosexuals. The question is rather: are they morally relevant differences? This matters because morally catastrophic consequences can ensue when we latch on to a real but morally irrelevant difference between sentient beings.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

No one is asking police officers to beat white protestors like they beat us. We want them to not beat us like they don't beat them

But the Arabs and the Africans and the Hispanics—what had they contributed in the past five hundred years other than terrorism, bad music and crack cocaine?

The Arabs—she liked to think of them as the cockroaches of the human race—were spreading like a toxic ooze across the major cities of Europe, poisoning civilized society and watering down the gene pool.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Prejudice is a shape shifter. It's very agile in taking forms that seem acceptable on the surface.

Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.

All their lives they had been taught to think of sight as an anathema.

If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.

In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.

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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.