#discrimination

I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these acquisitions; but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profit of the chosen few. And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they, and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded their's. When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? ↗

— Mary Shelley

#discrimination #humanity #diet

The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether of belief, religion, language, thought or color. ~ Valmor Da Silva p. 124 in Reading Other-Wise ↗

— Gerald O. West

#diversity #harmony #religion

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. ↗

— Bob Black

#employment #end #i #liberals #say

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#concentration #discrimination #entrepreneurial #essential #five

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#frankly #i #over #quite #quite frankly

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#anything #area #audience #discrimination #fact

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#alive #also #denying #discrimination #men

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#discrimination #father #husband #i #just

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. ↗

— Ryan White

#because #discrimination #education #fear #lack

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#assure #democracies #discrimination #either #ever