Quotes about Discrimination

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

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

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.