Quotes about Discrimination
On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by now-Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, who worked with my father, Martin Luther King Jr.
— Martin Luther King III
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
— Samuel Johnson
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
— Giles Fraser
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