Quotes about Discrimination
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
- George W. Bush
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
- Martin Luther
We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.
- George W. Bush
Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.
- Edmund Burke
Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
- Gloria Steinem
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
- Malcolm X
God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.
- Jerry Falwell
The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.
- Winston Churchill
Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and found themselves being steadily crowded out from occupation after occupation by the thrifty, skillful Orientals, who, with their yellow skin and strange, debasing habits of life, seemed to them hardly fellow men at all, but evil spirit, rather.
- Woodrow Wilson
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
- Shirley Chisholm
I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.
- Diane Guerrero