Definition of Inferiority
Inferiority

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

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Age, As, Being, Condition, Inferior, Inferiority, Lower, Of, Or, Rank, State, The, Worth


Inferiority Quotations

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. Woodson

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Carter G. Woodson

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir

Inferiority Translations

inferiority in German is Minderwertigkeit
inferiority in Spanish is inferioridad