Quotes About Discrimination

You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl.

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it's always an insult.

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason. I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I'd rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they [the Jews] were always submissive.

I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.

Emmett Till's murder" instilled in Anne Moody, a fourteen-year-old black girl from Alabama, "the fear of being killed just because I was black." It was the senselessness of the murder of the fourteen-year-old boy that she couldn't get out of her mind, she was to say. "I didn't know what one had to do or not do as a Negro not to be killed. Probably just being a Negro period was enough, I thought.

vÅ¡echny systémy', dokonce i takzvané 'neohrani?ené demokracie' vylu?ovaly z ob?anství ne ménÄ› než ?tvrtinu své populace v d?sledku vÄ›ku, narození, danÄ› z hlavy, kriminálního rejstÃ…â"¢íku nebo dalÅ¡ího.

No, not exactly. Damn it, why couldn't she have married a white man? We brought her up better than that.

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

If we dared to proclaim Straight Pride, we would immediately get accused of homophobia — although the Gay Pride people, most curiously, never, never get accused of heterophobia.

Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind.

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.

I don't know where you'd find such a magazine. ~ on the stipulations set by a benefactor to the Harvard Advocate that the staff contain no Jews, homosexuals, or drunks

Bahwa Hassan akan menjadi seorang buta huruf seperti Ali dan sebagian besar orang Hazara sudah diputuskan pada menit saat dia dilahirkan, mungkin bahkan saat dia masih meringkuk dalam rahim Sanaubar yang tidak menginginkannya. Lagi pula apa gunanya seorang pelayan belajar menulis dan membaca?

Don't stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group," I said.

A person is okay," he said, peering into the darkness and the open street. "But when you put a bunch of us together, something is switched on, something ugly." He glanced at her apologetically. "All of us, humans and nonhumans alike, are genetically primed to attack what's different from the collective.

Alfred Dreyfus had been a scapegoat because he was at once a Jew and a vampire.

She recalled hearing how after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they had built prison camps faster than medical facilities. They had expected riots and so had put people of color in jail preemptively. But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since

It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of Hinduism, the untouchables, who fell beyond the pale of the caste system had ample reason to convert to Catholicism. The caste-Hindus, as a matter of fact, left them no choice. As sub-humans they were little better than slaves.

What do they want?" "They want all the freaks dead. Funny. I don't

She however practiced discrimination without even realizing that she was doing so when it came to the untouchables. She would not allow the girl who swept the floor at home to enter her kitchen. Once when she did by mistake, I heard my mother shouting at her endlessly while washing the kitchen floor with buckets of water, which ironically were brought by the same girl from a nearby well.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.