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Quotes About Discrimination

America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not
~ Fee Scott
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
~ Aaron Klug
Astrology is a cousin of racism.
~ Penn Jillette
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
~ Amiri Baraka
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.
~ Bryan Stevenson
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
~ Thurgood Marshall
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
~ Saina Nehwal
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
~ Shirley Chisholm
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.
~ Charles Mingus
You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
~ Fisher Stevens
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
~ Martha Beck
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
~ Judith Light
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
~ Bella Abzug
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
el "multiculturalismo" (y el "culturalismo en general), en su esfuerzo por proporcionar un apoyo académico (o, para ser más precisos, una pátina promocional) a la práctica multiculturalista, es en sí mismo un ejercicio de encubrimiento. Lo que intenta tapar y expulsar del debate público es la cruda realidad de la discriminación y la privación sociales.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro, when you have put him down, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you
~ Abraham Lincoln