Quotes about Discrimination
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
— Stephen Hawking
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
— Anthony Browne
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
— Stephen Malkmus
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
— Damian Lewis
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
— Don Cheadle
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
— Hillary Clinton
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
— Ricky Gervais
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
— Thomas Jefferson
Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.
— David Livingstone Smith
He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.
— Martin Luther