Quotes about Discrimination

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's plan in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.

It is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

We are not at war against Islam.