Discrimination Quotes

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.