Quotes about Discrimination

if she wishes to be American—to be known as such and to actually belong—she must become a thing unimaginable in her home country: she must become white.

You born here? Naw. Down south. Jacksonville, Florida. Bad country, boy. Bad, bad country. You know they ain't even got an orphanage in Jacksonville where colored babies can go? They have to put 'em in jail. I tell people that talk about them sit ins I was raised in jail, and it don't scare me none.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.

We agreed that the true enemy of man is not man. Our enemy is not outside of us. Our true enemy is the anger, hatred, and discrimination that is found in the hearts and minds of man.