The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
To chop off the heads of men I use a special sword, following the writings of the prophet Mohammed, while I use a gun to execute women. When the job is done, I get a sense of delight and thank God for giving me this power.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.
We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.
I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.
If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
The thing that is wrong with the Uniform Code of Military Justice is that it is not uniformly applied
We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.
Minority students became the victims of low expectations.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.
We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.
Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.
Everyone has that experience in a club where a doorman doesn't pick you out.
The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
The right wing of the Conservative Party is one of the most vicious, prejudiced and neolithic animals in British politics
