Quotes about Discrimination

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”