Quotes About Discrimination

Since whites in general were not held responsible for harm to blacks, it followed that only those whites who were found liable for intentional discrimination should be penalized. As I suggested earlier, the Brown decision substituted one mantra for another: where "separate" was once equal, "separate" would be now categorically unequal.

In South Carolina, a man was murdered and his stepdaughter whipped because she'd had the insolence to "embarrass" a white family by bearing the child of one of its members.

The Underground Railway had brought thirty thousand refugees from American slavery, but many went home after the Civil War, tired of being poor, patronized, or scorned by Canada's white majority.

Under the shabby pretext that Japanese Canadians needed protection from their angry neighbours, the government evacuated nineteen thousand men, women, and children to the B.C. interior, auctioning their property for derisory prices. It was an inexcusable act, born out of half a century of racial prejudice. Generals, admirals, and the RCMP protested that there was no military need for the internment

E.A. Partridge of the Grain Growers' Guide wondered pointedly why the vote was available to "the lowest imbruted foreign hobo" but not to Canadian women.

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation. But not all things can be seen. Jati can be seen but not varna.

Villains have no gender

A state that has denied opportunity for quality education for Negroes has no right to demand literacy as a prerequisite for voting

state that has denied opportunity for quality education for Negroes has no right to demand literacy as a prerequisite for voting

I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of it that I cannot see how anyone of my sex could fail to identify with those similarly oppressed.

Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This White waitress came up to me and said, "We don't serve colored people here." I said, "That's all right, I don't eat colored people, no way! Bring me a whole fried chicken."

For years they told us where to sit, where to eat, and where to live. Now they want to dictate our bedroom habits. First the white man tells me to sit in the back of the bus. Now it looks like he wants me to sleep under the bed. Back in the days of slavery, black folks couldn't grow kids fast enough for white folks to harvest. Now that we've got a little taste of power, white folks want us to call a moratorium on having children.

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

Prejudice is subjectiveness's sister.

Car là encore ces hommes se livraient à quelque chose de grotesque lorsqu'ils embêtaient leur famille pour qu'elle leur achète un costume tout neuf pour leur procès. Les tribunaux ne prenaient jamais en considération la tenue des inculpés. Ils auraient pu comparaître dans des sacs à pommes de terre, les juges n'en avaient rien à faire. La seule chose qui comptait était la couleur de leur peau et les chefs d'accusation.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

The only crime I committed was being fat.

I don't want a Nazi to notice me and think, Jew. Because then I might die, too.

It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.

Wow, so homophobic.