Discrimination Quotes

497 Discrimination quotes by 365 unique authors

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they… — Desmond Tutu
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler… — Henry A. Wallace
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. — Ryan White
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. — Carter G. Woodson
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. — Carter G. Woodson
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to… — Carter G. Woodson
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more… — Romola Garai
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. — Terry Pratchett
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees… — Mahatma Gandhi
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. — Shirley Chisholm
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character. — Nicholas A. Basbanes
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of… — H P Lovecraft
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. — Samuel Johnson
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. — Christopher Hitchens
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. — Lady Gaga
What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies… — Swami Satchidananda
D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were… — Malorie Blackman
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been,… — Naomi Wolf
Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity… — Nora Roberts
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting… — Gary L. Francione
It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race'… — Christopher Hitchens
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate. — Stephen Colbert
Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate… — Frantz Fanon

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