Prejudice and Discrimination Quotes

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences—deep, corrosive, obstinate differences—radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

As the oppressor minority subordinates and dominates the majority, it must divide it and keep it divided in order to remain in power.

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Jewish stinginess and financial wizardry gained them commercial control of Europe and provoked anti-Semitism, which waxed and waned in Europe throughout the ages.

When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.

The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

When Thurgood Marshall went to a Southern town to try a case, he didn't know whether he would be alive at the end of the day.

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

Donald Trump giving a speech on Islam is like me giving a speech titled, 'The Best Haircuts to Have If You Really Want to Succeed in Corporate America.' I could do it. But I'd mostly be making it up as I went along.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored—it is a shadow over all of us.

President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.

Because of unconquerable prejudice resulting from their color, [freed slaves] never could amalgamate with the free whites of this country.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.

A person should not have a second class life because he chose the wrong parents.

Conspiracy theories are the way Muslims avoid facing up to their responsibility to be self-critical.

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.