Discrimination Quotes

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

~ Ruby Wax

It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a shower was inconceivable. What made it tolerable was while I was inside, I found my tribe - my people. They understood and unlike those who don't suffer, never get bored of you asking if it will ever go away? They can talk medication all hours, day and night; heaven to my ears.

~ Ruby Wax

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

~ Ruby Wax

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goals and needs. But the same discrimination has also resulted in a multiplicity of growing minorities who are infuriated by this insidious dispossession.

~ Ivan Illich

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

~ Dashanne Stokes

Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

~ Abhijit Naskar

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

~ Ben Elton

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

~ Nelson Mandel

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

~ Megan Chance

Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important, it's an act of revolution.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

~ Michael R. French

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

~ Umberto Eco

External explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to many to be more amenable to public policy than internal explanations such as culture. Those with this point of view tend to resist cultural explanations but there is yet another reason why some resist understanding the counterproductive effects of an anachronistic culture: Alternative explanations of economic and social lags provide a more satisfying ability to blame all such lags on the sins of others, such as racism or discrimination. Equally important, such external explanations require no painful internal changes in the black population but leave all changes to whites, who are seen as needing to be harangued, threatened, or otherwise forced to change.In short, prevailing explanations provide an alibi for those who lag—and an alibi is for many an enormously valuable asset that they are unlikely to give up easily.

~ Thomas Sowell

Then I told him, ‘Injustice, Poverty and Discrimination is faced by a lot of Indians, and also majority, the fact is that if you “Minority” stop thinking yourself as a part of “Minority” and start thinking as the part of India, and proceed together for it’s good, then only “Minority” and majority would progress altogether.

~ Shaikh Ashraf

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

~ Anna White

All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.

~ Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

~ Michael R. French

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

~ Richard Davenport-Hines

People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is a vast, frozen sea, solid as rock, unthawable. She has never seen the sea, but she knows it wraps around three-quarters of the world. All her anger is that and more.

~ Neel Mukherjee

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.

~ Dashanne Stokes

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

~ Ash Gray

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

~ Dashanne Stokes

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

~ Dashanne Stokes