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Quotes about Discrimination

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
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
— Gloria Steinem
It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
— Kevin Hart
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
— Andrew Jackson
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
— Zendaya
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
— Miroslav Volf
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
— Malcolm X