Discrimination Quotes

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

~ Reni Eddo-Lodge

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

~ Dashanne Stokes

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he could look down at Turk. “It’s not just about freaks. I mean, you’re the guy who thinks of ideas and all, but you’re missing it. You don’t even notice that the whole council is either black or Mexican. See, that’s what’s happening: it’s all these minorities hooked up with freaks.”The wheels in Turk’s mind began to turn slowly. But they were picking up speed. “Jamal’s with us and he’s black.”“So? We use Jamal. He gets us into Albert’s. You do what you gotta do. All I’m saying is, you and me, we’re normal people. We’re not black or queer or Mexican. And we’re the ones digging toilets. How come?”Turk knew the answer: because they had failed in their attempt to take over. But he’d never thought about this new angle.“Astrid’s a normal white person,” Turk argued halfheartedly. “So’s Sam.”“Sam’s a freak, and I think he might even be a Jew,” Lance said. His eyes were glittering. He was showing his teeth, grinning as he talked. It wasn’t a good look for him. “And Astrid? She’s not even on the council anymore.

~ Michael Grant

Her anger at the young woman's stubbornness quickly prompted recollections of all the times she'd found herself on one side or another of these meaningless, bigoted demarcations; all the times she'd been made to feel alien to some stranger's expectation of what constituted the right and normal world---the color of her skin, the ethnicity of the man she'd chosen to marry, even her tomboy daughter.

~ Omar El Akkad

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

with the police doing all the killing, who do we call when our hero's are the villain

~ O.s. Hickman

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When you want strong coffee, you ask for black coffee. If you want it light, you want it weak, integrated with white milk. Just like these Negroes who weaken themselves and their race by this integrating and intermixing with whites. If you want bread with no nutritional value, you ask for white bread. All the good that was in it has been bleached out of it, and it will constipate you. If you want pure flour, you ask for dark flour, whole-wheat flour. If you want pure sugar, you want dark sugar.

~ Malcolm X

White people now tan to get darker; and black people wear their hair like white people. We are all confused. Deep down we admire each other, but we don't accept it. The silly thing is that the color of one's skin is simply evolution's answer for dealing with different rates of exposure to the sun. How ignorant is it then to judge a person on that?

~ Manasa Rao

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

~ Malcolm X

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

~ Auliq Ice

The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.

~ Umberto Eco

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt.

~ Ricardo Derose

Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed to be biologically hypersexual and deviant. Historian Rickie Solinger demonstrates that in the 1950s an unwed white girl who became pregnant could go to a maternity home before her pregnancy showed, deliver the baby and give it up for adoption, and return home to her community with no one the wiser. (White parents concocted stories of their daughters being given the opportunity to study for a semester with relatives.) She could then resume the role of the nice girl.Unwed pregnant black girls, on the other hand, were barred from maternity homes; they were threatened with jail or termination of welfare; and they were accused of using their sexuality in order to be eligible for larger welfare checks. Politicians regarded unwed pregnant black girls as a societal problem, declaring--as they continue to declare today--that they did not want taxpayers to support black illegitimate babies, and sought to control black female sexuality through sterilization legislation.

~ Leora Tanenbaum

We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism, it means telling unlike things apart.

~ Bill Maher

If human beings are the most intelligent creatures on earth, why is it that the other less intelligent creatures realise themselves in their group of spieces that they are the same despite the difference in colour or condition, while humam beings don't

~ Nathanael Kanyinga

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

~ Habeeb Akande

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

~ Habeeb Akande

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

~ Thomas M. Cirignano

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

~ Pawan Mishra

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

~ United Nations

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

~ John Lewis

If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.

~ Mohamed Nur Hashi

Never judge people based on their nationality, religion, race, gender, skin colour or look. Humans are all the same. They’re God’s loving children. Angel of Hope

~ Lily Amis

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

~ Haruki Murakami