general population” that so concerned the Secretary.

Bad bloods aren’t born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.

There is discrimination between Arab and Jew in everything but your votes, you will be shooting yourselves in the foot if you boycott.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why...

When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger,...

When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

…The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the Negro the outright terror and open...

Separation is the first cause of inequality.

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by...

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example,...

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.

I accept all people—even the people I find unacceptable.

I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to Africa. I’m an American that is black and my　– and I’m proud to...

So you’ve got a frightened, stupid, even disabled person, silenced, made ugly, and what can you do with someone like that, someone who’s unworthy of being treated well? You treat them badly because that’s what...

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...