Quotes about Discrimination

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

She was made to stand in a garbage can for twelve hours, as the other detainees demanded that she confess her own "homosexual tendencies.

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

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.