#discrimination

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#cannot #cured #discrimination #education #housing

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#citizens #discrimination #ethnic #iraq #iraqi

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#because #becomes #critical #discrimination #economy

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#humor #self-assurance #self-worth #humor

Se sabe que las bicicletas han tratado por todos los medios de remediar su triste condición social. Pero en absolutamente todos los países de la tierra 'está prohibido entrar con bicicletas'. Algunos agregan: 'y perros', lo cual duplica en las bicicletas y en los canes su complejo de inferioridad. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#discrimination #humor #humor

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. ↗

— Bobby Rush

#discrimination #eliminate #feel #legal #may

You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you’ve hurt them, marked them, they’re even more sick and ugly, aren’t they? And they’re afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know this isn’t very pleasant, but you did ask.” “Go on” he said. “So you’ve got a frightened, stupid, even disabled person, silenced, made ugly, and what can you do with someone like that, someone who’s unworthy of being treated well? You treat them badly because that’s what they deserve. One thinks of poor little kids that no one love because they’re dirty, sovered in snot and shit, and always screaming. So you beat them because they’re hateful, they’re low, they’re sub-human. That’s all they’re good for, being hit, being reduced even further. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#hatred #injustice #prejudice #violence #love

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#anything #been #denied #development #discrimination

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#career #discrimination #empowerment #equality #jobs

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman