Structural Discrimination Quotes

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color.

All whites benefitted from American slavery.

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.

Our party [Zanu-PF] must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

As the oppressor minority subordinates and dominates the majority, it must divide it and keep it divided in order to remain in power.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

I'm not supposed to be here. A lot of people from where I'm from don't make it.

With what moral authority can they [the U. S.] speak of human rights — the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated?

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Can we in good conscience expect youth to work within the system when we deny them that very opportunity?

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.

Students who spend their lives in segregated schools can look forward to a life on the margins.

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics.

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA‘s first African-American President.

Modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.