Quotes About Discrimination

Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.

The discrimination of others may be among the most important of abilities because it allows one to handle interactions with many individuals without having to treat them all the same, thus making possible the rewarding of cooperation from one individual and the punishing of defection from another.

The probability that a black student will have white classmates has dropped to what it was before 1954, when the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declared separate schools inherently unequal.

PINE: I guess your long hair makes you a girl. ZAPPA: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

Current patterns of economic segregation make a self-fulfilling prophecy of the claim that the poor are not like the rest of us.

Don't separate race from class. Racial discrimination is aggravating class divides, and wider inequality is worsening racial divides.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

The characterization of entire groups as victims has underwritten the conviction that such groups may never be subjected to criticism of any kind.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration

A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

One of the tenants here has a tumor on his face. It covers most of his right eye. Where I come from, it would have been treated and removed. So I find myself thinking, what if I get sick? Something as simple as appendicitis could kill me. I've had all the shots, but what happens when the vaccines wear off? As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal.

Treating everyone equally means ignoring their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who excel.

The Germans felt themselves superior to the Italians. The Italians thought the Germans vulgar.

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

My people live with a grave misconception of the world, Bayle. In doing so, they create injustice.

Men's armor and women's armor didn't actually look much different, which he found a shame. Mat had asked a Seanchan armorer if certain areas of the female breastplate shouldn't be emphasized, so to speak, and the armorer had looked at him like he was a half-wit. Light, these people had no sense of morality. A fellow needed to know if he was fighting a woman on the battlefield. It was only right.

Then, too, it seems certain, in light of future events, simple racism was a factor; Ramanujan, after all, was a black man.

He taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.

take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.

There's also subliminal cuing about beauty.18 From an early age, in both sexes and across cultures, attractive people are judged to be smarter, kinder, and more honest. We're more likely to vote for attractive people or hire them, less likely to convict them of crimes, and, if they are convicted, more likely to dole out shorter sentences.

Part of the prejudice thing is that the victim has to be somebody weaker than you in numbers, but somebody you secretly admire or fear.

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed?" "Like that, yes.

What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

In the E and S quadrants, discrimination does exist, especially in companies. Your looks, your education, your skin color, and your gender all count on the left side.