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Quotes About Discrimination

We don't serve time travelers here. A time traveler walks into the bar.
~ Jenny Offill
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
~ Jeremiah Wright
I'm so much more scared of white guys than black guys. Like an angry black guys would pull out a gun and be like 'Yo, I'm coming back with my cousins and we're gonna funck you up' and a white guy would be like just 'BANG'!
~ Jeremy Iversen
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
~ Jermaine Jackson
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
~ Jerome Bruner
That's the way a prejudice works; you come to despise the people you've taken advantage of so your conscience doesn't hurt.
~ Jerry Borrowman
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
~ Jerry Falwell
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
~ Jerry Garcia
Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Were I a black man, it occurs to me, working or not, in this city, I would have a dry-cleaning bill.
~ Jess Row
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
~ Jesse Jackson
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
~ Jesse Jackson
Quand nous sommes au chômage, nous sommes traités de paresseux ; quand les Blancs sont au chômage, ça s'appelle une dépression
~ Jesse Jackson
The scripts I get are always for the whore, or the motorcycle chick in leather, or the horny maid ... I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.
~ Jessica Alba
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.
~ Jessica Bruder
Another abstinence book claims, "A woman is far more attracted by a man's personality, while a man is stimulated by sight. A man is usually less discriminating about those to whom he is physically attracted.
~ Jessica Valenti
But when articles about the sexual infection rates of African American women are one column over from an article about young white women's spring break, a disturbing cultural narrative is reinforced--that "innocent" white girls are being lured into an oversexualized culture, while young black women are already part of it.
~ Jessica Valenti
Surm ei ole šovinist.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A large rubber company was told it must provide proof that it had no Jewish employees before it could submit bids to municipalities.
~ Erik Larson
Hitler's cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering various physical and mental handicaps.
~ Erik Larson
When the conversation turned to Germany's persecution of Jews, Colonel House urged Dodd to do all he could "to ameliorate Jewish sufferings" but added a caveat: "the Jews should not be allowed to dominate economic or intellectual life in Berlin as they have done for a long time." In this, Colonel House expressed a sentiment pervasive in America, that Germany's Jews were at least partly responsible for their own troubles. Dodd
~ Erik Larson
You know, of course," Dodd said, "that we have had difficulty now and then in the United States with Jews who had gotten too much of a hold on certain departments of intellectual and business life.
~ Erik Larson
I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.
~ Erik Larson
I have examined the laws of the United States carefully and I do not find any law which says that a white man shall be punished for killing a Chinaman.
~ Erik Larson