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

Tags: humor self-worth self-assurance discrimination



Go to quote


The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne

Tags: wisdom life equality inspiration discrimination birds loss-of-wonder



Go to quote


The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: man humanity connection anger culture discrimination race envy prejudicism



Go to quote


Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Audre Lorde

Tags: truth society different misfits discrimination dehumanization profit differences rejection economics-society institutional-oppression institutionalized outsiders social-outcasts surplus survival-of-the-fittest



Go to quote


Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

Theodore J. Kaczynski

Tags: perspective society sanity sickness discrimination mental-health mental-illness abuse-of-power anti-psychiatrity anti-stigma judged label labeling labeling-someone labelling mental-disorder mental-health-stigma mental-health-system



Go to quote


It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Henry A. Wallace

Tags: politics discrimination americans hitler



Go to quote




Tags: murder fitting-in memoir bullying italian discrimination nonfiction bully true-crime boston boston-harbor boston-history castle-island cirignano dorchester drinking-and-driving forced-busing gas-shortage irish-mob osracism south-boston southie whitey-bulger



Go to quote


The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another, the lack of resources of the underclass to speak out, the endless "reforms" that changed little. Dostoevski once said: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

Howard Zinn

Tags: discrimination justice-system



Go to quote


The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: discrimination racism



Go to quote


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

Tags: music protest prejudice discrimination monster ball lady gaga



Go to quote



Page 1 of 8.
next last »

©gutesprueche.com

Data privacy

Imprint
Contact
Wir benutzen Cookies

Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.

OK Ich lehne Cookies ab