Quotes About Discrimination And Prejudice

#1. Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#2. We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so easily happen again if we're not mindful and careful.

Ryan Murphy

#4. When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

G. Norman Lippert

#5. Declining birth rates mean that employers are going to have to become more creative if they want to access the knowledge workers they need. And that means abandoning the lazy prejudice of age discrimination.

Ken Robinson

#6. It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bernadette Devlin

#7. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)

Marian Anderson

#8. I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

Joe Biden

#9. When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. 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.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change," says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere.

Sandy Fussell

#13. 1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

Ruby Wax

#14. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Ruby Wax

#15. Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

Philip Zimbardo

#16. Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

DaShanne Stokes

#17. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.

DaShanne Stokes

#18. Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate?

Ashly Lorenzana

#19. People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

DaShanne Stokes

#20. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Patrick W. Corrigan

#21. My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

John Oliver Killens

#22. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#23. Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Anderson Silva

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

Ian Leslie

#25. The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Betty Friedan

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

Ruby Wax

#27. Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#28. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

#29. Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#30. The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

Lady Gaga

#31. Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are much higher.

Damon Tweedy

#32. The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all.

John Howard Griffin

#33. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

Richard M. Rorty

#34. We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

Otto Frank

#35. The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the Negro the outright terror and open brutality of the South.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#36. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

#37. The eternal wave of hate never stops.

Lilo Abernathy

#38. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

#39. Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

DaShanne Stokes

#40. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

DaShanne Stokes