Malcolm was one of the people Martin saw in the mountain top. ibid.
You have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world. ibid.
‘This was a vicious violent system; you could die trying to register to vote.’ Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America, History 2018
‘What we saw as a problem, they saw as a solution.’ ibid.
‘Their courage, their love, transformed the history of this country by affecting the hearts of people thousands of miles away.’ ibid.
Nearly a century after slavery, racial segregation was the law across the South. ibid.
The strategy begins with a single act of defiance. ibid.
The movement also chooses its leader: 26 year old minister who is determined to keep the protests going. ibid.
The Civil Rights Act is the most sweeping change in social policy since the Civil War. ibid.
‘We must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.’ ibid. Johnson
Equality is still elusive. ibid.
I belonged to a new underclass. No longer determined by social status or the colour of your skin. No. We now have discrimination down to a science. Gattaca 1997 starring Uma Thurman & Ethan Hawke & Mason Gamble & Chad Christ & Jude Law & Loren Dean & Vincent Nielson & William Lee Scott & Gore Vidal & Xander Berkeley & Jayne Brook & Elias Koteas & Maya Rudolph & Blair Underwood et al, director Andrew Niccol, commentary
On March 23rd the Trump administration announced new discriminatory measures against transgender people by banning them from military service, which had just been granted under Obama … It’s just the latest attack on the trans community since the right wing took power. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: The Hidden War on Trans Rights, 2018
In 2016 alone, more than fifty bills were introduced in Congress targeting the lives of trans people. ibid.
In thirty states, well over half the country, one can be legally fired just on the basis of having a non-conforming gender identity. ibid.
One in five trans people report having been homeless. ibid.
I am the Reverend Jide Macaulay. I’m a minister in the Church of England and I’m a proudly out-gay man. I’m very happy with both sides of who I am. But I’ve arrived at a crossroads. At 53 years old I’ve finally met the man I want to marry. But while it’s my legal right to marry my same-sex partner, the Church of England forbids it. So if I do want to get married, I will have to choose between the love of my church and the love of my life. It’s not just a dilemma for me. Too Gay for God? BBC 2019
Am I too gay for God? ibid.
The Church of England is Britain’s biggest Christian denomination: it considers gay sex to be sinful but not gay identity. ibid.
Before he [Donald Trump] can make his move in Manhattan a problem arrived on the doorstep of his father: the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organisation alleging that they had discriminated against black and Latin families wanting to live in the buildings his father had built. The Trump Dynasty I, Charles Bagli, History 2019
I’m travelling to the extreme edge of modern British masculinity. Fifty years after women began a march for equal rights, the battle of the sexes is being fought on a new front, but this it’s not by women, it’s by young men. I want to know why so many young guys feel overlooked, overly judged, and under attack. And as growing numbers take to the internet and social media becomes a weapon of hate, I want to find out why a new generation of men feel the real victims of sex discrimination are guys. Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK: Men at War, BBC 2019
Many of the men I met at the seminar claimed they had to hide their views and the faces for fear of repercussions at work. ibid.
There seems to be a weird sense of paranoia in this world. ibid.
I’m just not sure why. ibid.
Disability discrimination at the heart of the Department for Work & Pensions: the department meant to help disabled people into work has lost more disability discrimination tribunals that any other employer in Britain. And it’s had to pay out almost a million pounds of public money to its own disabled employees. Panorama: The Million Pound Disability Payout, BBC 2020
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests, Carl Jung, Sky Documentaries 2021
Personality testing is a multi-billion-dollar industry and is growing at least 15% a year. ibid. Ben Dattner, organizational psychologist
Bias can also be encoded in computer programming. With new technologies we’re actually encapturing new forms of discrimination that were not really conceived of when we created the anti-discrimination laws that we have now. ibid. Ifeoma Ajunwa, Cornell University
By 1968 there were two Race Relations Acts which outlawed discrimination in jobs and housing. George Alagiah, Mixed Britannia 2/3: 1940-1965, BBC 2011
I’ve never seen a more flagrant, repellent and cynical exploitation of anti-Semitism in my life than its disgusting use to smear Corbyn because of a lack of alternatives for how to defeat him. Glenn Greenwald, journalist, Tweet October 2021
The Boy Scouts of America discriminates against gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, atheists and women. Eagle Scout, Scouting for All, campaigns against Boy Scouts of America discrimination, cited Penn & Teller
Instead of teaching hate they should be teaching inclusiveness and acceptance – and let that spread as the wildfire. ibid.
On Saturday male and female homosexuals converged on Hyde Park for an open-air rock concert, the climax of Gay Pride week. Stonewall 79 marked the tenth anniversary of the Stonewall riot in New York. World in Action: Gay Pride, ITV 1979
Homosexuals still complain of discrimination. ibid.
The Act of Union had given Catholics economic power but their political destiny remained in the hands of London. Fergal Keane, The Story of Ireland: Age of Nations 5/5, BBC 2011
Fears grew that Britain would introduce conscription in Ireland. ibid.
[Patrick] Pearse stepped outside and read from a proclamation signed by himself and the six other leaders: he declared an Irish republic. ibid.
Public anger deepened following mass arrests and the imposition of martial law. ibid.
The volunteers evolved into the Irish Republican Army. ibid.
Collins would find himself directing a guerrilla war. The IRA campaign which began in 1919 was met with fierce reprisals against civilians by security forces like the Black & Tans. ibid.
In October 1921 a Sinn Fein delegation led by Michael Collins arrived in London to discuss a political settlement. ibid.
The slide to civil war had begun. ibid.
Michael Collins was assassinated in County Cork. ibid.
In the Protestant-ruled six counties of Ulster electoral boundaries had been drawn to ensure majorities for unionists in most areas. ibid.
A place of discrimination and exclusion. ibid.
Physical and sexual abuse on a large scale was part of the secret history of the new state. ibid.
Ireland remained neutral ... Germans bailing out over the South were interned. ibid.
Television challenged the voice of both priest and politician. Women joined the workforce in growing numbers and challenged discriminatory laws. ibid.
Republican and loyalist paramilitaries, policemen and soldiers, fought over the old ground. ibid.
Bloody Sunday: January 30th 1972. ibid.
Hunger strikes begin in the Maze Prison October 27th 1980. ibid.
Inequality between rich and poor was still amongst the worst of western Europe. ibid.
The full scale of clerical child abuse was revealed. ibid.
In 2008 a financial catastrophe unleashed public anger. ibid.
IRA disarmament September 26th 2005. ibid.
Southall, 1976: This was a racist murder [Gurdip Singh Chaggar]. Defiance: Fighting the Far Right I, Channel 4 2024, Balraj, Southall Youth Movement
We knew that the whole of the Asian community up and down the country was under siege, and we knew the police were against us … But we were the protectors of Southall. ibid.
The problem was there was a lot of hatred towards you. ibid. chap
School: There would be racial attacks in class. It was humiliation they wanted. ibid. Balraj
In our hearts there was a kind of anger burning. ibid.
Chaggar murder: I am quite satisfied that neither of you was activated by feelings of racial prejudice. This was basically not a racist killing. ibid. Mr Justice Lawson
Originally, there were five people who were arrested. Two were released and the other three faced a lower manslaughter charge. And they got very lenient sentences. Why were they walking around with a knife … ? ibid. chap
Brick Lane is now the focus of National Front agitation. ibid. news
You are doing this because of survival. Your community is under siege. ibid.