Discrimination Quotes

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you chose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

Separation is the first cause of inequality.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.

Arab' is the new four-letter word, didn't you know?

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

Prejudice is an act of violence.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.

they want me to be just like them but they want to be just like them

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.