Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of...

Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.

Why don’t they complain?””They do sometimes. But usually there’s nothing in particular to complain about. Take the case of Hardy’s appointment: Who was to blame? Hardy himself? The men? It certainly wasn’t the CO. But...

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Fear masquerades as a “just cause” while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.

outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the...

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Words not only reflect a person’s thoughts and beliefs, but, through their use, can shape a person’s values, beliefs, and actions, making them prejudiced without them even realizing it. That means it’s not just the...

Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed to be biologically hypersexual and deviant. Historian Rickie Solinger demonstrates that in the...

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were...

If ever these recommendations are to be considered it would clearly be a matter of religious discrimination and I think as far as the present human rights law is concerned it would be in breach...

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,...

I am a Dalit in Khairlanji. A Pandit in the Kashmir valley. A Sikh in 1984. I am from the North East of India when I am in Munirka. I am a Muslim in Gujarat;...

The point is: have you ever noticed how we crush a cockroach without further worry and feel no remorse in spite of being in fact terminating a life? That’s it. We do so because we...

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation).

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and...

Free your mind of the damaging clots of bias, being kind only to your own kind isn’t kindness at all

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt.

right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.

With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone.

People who live with mental illnesses are among the most stigmatized groups in society.Fighting the stigma caused by mental disorders: past perspectives, present activities, and future directions. World Psychiatry. Oct 2008; 7(3): 185–188. PMCID: PMC2559930

Why can’t everyone be treated equally? Forgotten of what they did wrong, but remember their rights? Why can’t the whole world just get along?

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and...

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow,...

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender—let me say—you are not alone. Your struggle for the end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call...

People often call fighting discrimination being “PC” because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.

A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for...

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove...

Not only did I not win the sweepstakes, but I didn’t even bother to enter. I feel discriminated against.

[…] weil sprachliche handlungen ein gutes mittel_instrument_möglichkeit_handlungsimpuls für politisches kämpfen gegen diskriminierungen sind – weil sprachliche handlungen allgegenwärtig sind.

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women...

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an...

More and more lawmakers of both parties are increasingly disillusioned by the military’s policy of exclusion and discrimination.

Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools...

What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a result of centuries of dehumanization that have taken a toll. More natural disasters...

Under Carl’s leadership the NAACP became more of a service organization for cases of discrimination against individuals. I plan to continue the service organization approach. This branch was recognized (under Mack) as the number one...

We’ve been brainwashed into believing that it’s a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn’t mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?