#inferiority

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#acting #always #back #bit #career

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. ↗

— John B. Keane

#else #everybody #everybody else #footballer #good

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#inferiority #outpouring

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#called #inferiority #origin #otherwise #sense

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#psychological #racism #racism

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#even #inferiority #must #places #schools