Quotes About Discrimination

Enquanto não se puser fim à funesta ideia da desigualdade das raças e da seleção entre diferentes espécies humanas, a luta dos povos de origem africana por aquilo que poderíamos chamar de "igualdade das partes" — e, portanto, dos direitos e das responsabilidades —, continuará a ser uma luta legítima.

The rich and powerful are less likely, all other things being equal, to be arrested, convicted, or imprisoned. The poor are, holding everything else constant, more likely to be incarcerated, institutionalized, and sterilized.

we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry. True

Even in the north, business people and professionals tended to speak French and to look down on the impoverished Flemish-speaking farmworkers and factory laborers.

of white men they are branded with a red-hot

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.

Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.

Anti-Semitism is one of the only forms of racial bigotry that punches upwards to perceived power

Don't trust whitey and whitey is fucking everywhere. We walked

Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.

The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth.

Oui, elle voulait avoir un enfant clair parce que cela représentait a l'époque une sorte de supériorité, c'était bête, mais c'était une part de notre complexe vis-a-vis des Blancs, tout ce qui était blanc était meilleur, tout ce qui était noir était maudit, sans avenir, sans lendemain

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

This remarkable story is all too typical of how so many Jewish leaders throughout our history have reasoned about Jewish survival. Without tsuris--troubles--we will cease to be Jewish. We need to be persecuted, impoverished, discriminated against, hated, and victimized in order for us to retain our Jewishness. The chosen people must be denied choices if Judaism is to survive. If Jews are given freedom, opportunity, and choice, they will choose to assimilate and disappear.

It was always a bad sign when better-off types drew comparisons between unsightly ghetto populations and some animal or other, most especially those species that we had, reluctantly, to poison periodically. Why didn't people keep their lame excuses to themselves? Mick

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It is true that the victim was a black man, and there is a school of thought which would regard such an offence as less serious when the victim is black.

I knew that not all whites are racist, but that the oppression she was committed to resist was racial and emanated from whites.

Today, little has changed. Many poorer whites oppose social reform as "welfare programs for blacks" although, ironically, they have employment, education, and social service needs that differ from those of poor blacks by a margin that, without a racial scorecard, is difficult to measure. Interest

Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in mainly white schools. They faired poorly or dropped out of school. Truly, these were the real victims of the great school desegregation campaign.

The Court ignored his racial configuration and simply applied the "one drop" rule. If Plessy was white and ejected from a white railroad coach, the Court said he would have suffered an offense for which the law would have provided a remedy, but if he was not white, that is, possessing even one drop of black blood, he had not been denied any property because he was not entitled to the reputation of being a white man.

My parents were typical of many who drilled into me at an early age that because you are black, you have to be twice as good to get half as much. Unspoken in that advice is that whites are presumed competent until they prove the contrary. Blacks are assumed to be mediocre and certainly no intellectual match for whites until their skills and accomplishments gain them an often-reluctant acceptance.

A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students in the classroom either for special instruction or in response to the black students' requests.