Quotes about Discrimination

schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.

There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up.

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.