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“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.”

People Should Mind Helping Today Law Social Groups Gay Protect Paper Discrimination Vulnerable Social Change Gay People Framed Racial Discrimination Barometer

Author:Bayard Rustin

“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.”

“Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.”

Men Said Jobs Used Given Black White Groups Paid Stronger Discrimination Superiors Justify Inferiors Superiority White Man Plight

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.”

Knows Men Order Powerful Power Groups Mystery Survival Regard Vices Discrimination Inequality Know Me Vice Versa

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”

Source: Making Sense

“Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.”

Way Persons Groups Responsible Discrimination Oppression Oppressed

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.”

Poverty Groups Position Relation Discrimination Oppression Deprived

Book:Twentieth century faith: hope and survival

Source: Twentieth century faith: hope and survival

“For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.”

Political Certain Politics Numbers Groups Position Structure Discrimination Oppression Stable Representation

Book:Sexual Politics

Source: Sexual Politics

“as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.”

Humans Values Groups Aspect Discrimination Range Dominant Domain Human Potential

Book:Toward a New Psychology of Women

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.”

“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.”

“Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.”

Reason Race Groups Members Constitution Sake Discrimination No Reason

Author:Colin Powell