Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Discrimination is a disease.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

The world is still very bigoted.

They taught me different was wrong.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.