Tatiana de Rosnay Quotes

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

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

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

If he presents himself to vote, he runs a risk to his life. Oppressed, he can complain, but if he finds only whites among his judges… His son is excluded from the school where the descendants of Europeans come to be instructed. In theaters he cannot buy for the price of gold the right to be placed at the side of one who was his master; in hospitals he lies apart. The black is permitted to beseech the same God as whites, but not to pray to him at the same alter.

Remember, this is a country where even the non-Jews know they have no rights.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

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

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

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.