Quotes about Discrimination

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Racism is racism—and there is no room in America for racism of any color. And we must reject calls for racism, whether they come from a throat that is white or one that is black.

As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

A Melungeon. She ain't white, she ain't colored, she ain't Injun. Ain't any one a them three kinds would claim her. Ain't just any fool'd take a chance on her, neither. Them Melungeons been hidin' up in these mountains long's anyone can remember. Got a certain look to 'em, like her—dark skin, but not red like a Injun. Black hair, and them cold blue eyes.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

the early discrimination laws against the Jews—the "Jews Only" shops, park benches, rest rooms, and drinking fountains—were explicitly modeled on segregation laws in the United States.