Quotes about Discrimination

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

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.

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.

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

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.

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.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.