Quotes About Injustice

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.

I learned at a very young age that my parents were undocumented.

I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.

In the age of millennials, women's rights, and female empowerment, I hope my voice helps to encourage the next generation of great female athletes and golfers to possibly stop social injustices and prejudices from creeping into the game that I fell in love with at such a young age.

The first time that I ever experienced a microaggression was probably in kindergarten. It's something that starts off from such a young age.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

But a lot of 'Bhavesh Joshi' comes from the 'angry young man' - the Bachchan films of the '70s or the Sunny Deol films of the '80s, where there is someone who has been wronged and wants to do the right thing.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.

People called me a dude and said there was no way I could be a woman. Some even wanted me to prove it to them. During high school and college, when we traveled for games, people would shout the same things while also using racial epithets and terrible homophobic slurs.

I have travelled the globe and experienced racial remarks towards me because I am black, believe me, the list goes on.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

I live in Arizona, and I don't like the way they treat Hispanics there.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?